...commissioners. (Ante, page 131.) The charter authorizes the General Assembly, without any qualification, "to choose, nominate, and appoint, such and so many other persons as they shall thiitkjit, and shall be willing to accept the same, to be free of the said company and body politic,...

...given to the grantees named therein, "lo choose, nominate and appoint such and so many other persons na they shall think fit, and shall be willing to accept...said company and body politic, and them into the same admit." The will of the grantees and their associates, under this latter charter, became the absolute...

...that body. Among these powers is that of admitting freemen. This is the wording of the grant : "And to choose nominate and appoint such and so many other...to be free of the said company and body politic and those into the same admit." (Charter, p. 7.) The conditions which might be imposed upon English subjects...

...Charter, page 5, Digest of 1822. ) Among the enumerated powers of the legislature is the following: "And to choose, nominate, and appoint such, and so many,...the said company and body politic, and them into the said company to admit." No extension, therefore, by the legislature of the right of sufirage to classes...

...assistants? " full power and authority to choose, nominate and appoint such and so many others as they^ shall be willing to accept the same to be free of the said Company and Body, and them into the same to admit." Accordingly at the frequent courts new freemen were admitted. Nor...

...authoritie to choose nome' nate and appointe such and soe many others as they shall thinke fitt, and that shall be willing to accept the same to be free of the said Company and Body and them into the same to admití and to elect and constitute such officers as they shall think fitt...

...authority to choose, nominate, and appoint, such and so many others as they shall think fit, and that shall be willing to accept the same, to be free of the said company and body, and them into the same to admit; and to elect and constitute such officers as they shall think fit...

...authoritie to choose, nominate and appointe such and soe many others as they shall thinke fitt, and that shall be willing to accept the same, to be free of the said Company and Body, and them into the same admitt." There was, it is true, no express prohibition against the exclusion...

...anthority to choose, nominate and appoint such and so many others as they shall think fit, and that shall be willing to accept the same to be free of the said Company and Body and then unto the same, to admit and to elect and constitute such officers as they shall think fit...

...and change such days, times and places of meeting and General Assembly, as they shall think fit; and to choose, nominate and appoint, such and so many...and body politic, and them into the same to admit; and to elect and constitute such offices and officers, and to grant such needful commissions, as they...