"vernors and the Affembly; and fince it is confeffed by all, that the establishing both of that, and other Courts, by Act of the Legislature, is indifputably legal, and gives them the most uncontrovertible Authority; and "if unquestionably legal, what is fo, cannot be destructive of his Majesty's Prerogative.---We therefore hope, you will make no Scruple of affenting "to this Bill, to put an End to a Contention, that has not been, nor will "be, while it continues, beneficial to his Majesty's Service."--

From this Time, the Chancery has been unattacked by the Affembly, but the Business transacted in it is very inconfiderable. A Court of Equity is abfolutely neceffary, for the due Administration of Justice; but whether private Property ought to be in the Hands of the Governours, I leave others to determine *. As the publick Business of the Colony increases, few of them, I believe, will be ambitious of the Chancellor's Office, as they have not the Affistance of a Master of the Rolls. The present Officers of this Court (which is always held in the Council-Chamber at the Fort) are, his Excellency Sir Charles Hardy, Knt. Chancellor, two Masters, two Clerks, one Examiner, a Regifter, and a Serjeant at Arms, and not one of them has a Salary. In our Proceedings we copy after the Chancery in England, and indeed in all our Courts, the Practice at Home is more nearly imitated in this and New-Jersey, than in any other Province upon the Continent. Few of our Affemblies have been capable to concert any new Regulations of this Kind; and hence the Lawyers have had Recourse to the English Customs and Forms, which they have generally adopted. While the New-England Colonies, through the fuperior Education of their Representatives, have introduced numberlefs Innovations, peculiar to themselves, the Laws of our Mother Country have gradually obtained here, and, in this Refpect, the Publick has perhaps received Advantages, even from the Ignorance of our Ancestors.

Some are of Opinion, that the Governour's Jurifdiction in this, and the Spiritual, or Prerogative, Court are incompatible.

FINI S.