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2002 · 33628 — 2002. ISBN-13: 9781584772194; ISBN-10: 1584772190. Leaming Aaron and Jacob Spicer. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey: The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments and Other Material Transactions Before the Surrender Thereof to Queen Anne The Instrument of Surrender and Her Formal Acceptance Thereof Lord Cornbury's Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed By the General Assembly. And Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the said Province With Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested Containing the Principal Matters in the Book. Philadelphia: W. Bradford 1881. vi 763 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772194. ISBN-10: 1584772190. Hardcover. New. $135. Reprint of the 1881 second edition. Originally printed by William Bradford at Philadelphia in 1758. The work covers the years 1664-1702 and contains the deeds and agreements of the proprietary period and Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as royal governor together with the laws passed before the surrender of the province to Queen Anne. Includes laws regarding trade regulation roads militia livestock courts appointment of governors Indians negroes civil and religious freedom Quakers taxes war land grants liquor sales freeholders legislature privileges and rights and individuals and more. The capital laws covered state that adultery rape witchcraft and conspiracy all were punishable by death. With an index for East Jersey and an index for West Jersey. unknown