CHAPTER XIII.

COURTS AND ARMY STRENGTHENED.--COMMISSIONERS SENT FROM ENGLAND.--CHARTER REVOKED.

Disputes concerning the title of Potowomut, 93

1680. Power of the town to reject or accept new citizens, 93

Efficiency of the courts increased, 94

English navigation act injures the commercial interests of the Colony, 95

Commissioners appointed to settle the vexed question of the King's Province, 96

Rhode Island's position in New England in regard to the other colonies, 96

Trouble with the Commissioners, 97

Charter revoked, 98

Rhode Island returned to its original form of government, 98