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of deputies under Louis XVIII. could petition the king to introduce a bill. Practically, the house gained the initiative, and Penn the negative voice. on all the doings of the council, and such a power was virtually a right to neg- Chap. XVI.} ative any law. It had been more simple to have left the assembly full power to originate bills, and to the governor an unconditional negative. This was virtually the method established in 1683; it was distinctly recognized in the fundamental law in 1696. Besides, the charter from Charles II. held the proprietary responsible for colonial legislation; and no act of provincial legislation could be perfected till it had passed the great seal of the province. That a negative voice was thus reserved to William Penn, was, I believe, the opinion of the colonists of that day; Votes, &c. p. 21. Recommended to the great seal. such was certainly the intention of the royal charter, and was necessary, unless the proprietary relation was to cease. I