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of any

Keird.

When Blackmore and his

associates were ordered

by

the king in council to be "detained, until further

evidence could be obtained against them, - an event

which never occurred, so

that they passed all the

rest of their lives in

the last survivor

in prison,

dying

there more than thirty years afterwards!) it was found necessary to pass an act of Parliament

for

the

purpose. The jealousy of Parliament imposed

in the

251

first instance some limitation

as to time, and,

at

every

renewal or continuation,

the same limitation was

observed. I have an entire

copy of the Act in

one edition

(the only complete

one in the colony) of the acts

passed down to the

accession

of George I. This act was passed under William III and

was renewed down

regularly to the middle of the reign

of George

III. It may furnish

a good constitutional precedent, not only for the detention of al Blum, but also for that