Reserved rights and vested rights are very different, and had the legislature reserved any important point in that charter, and the city co[u]ncil used used it, without the consent mutually of both parties, they would have been held amenable, to the supreme court for the usurpation of that power. But when the “benefit and convenience” of demands ordinances no broader than the constitution of the and that of , Justifies <​Justify​>, no matter whether there is any law on the subject or not, the <​city​> council has only to show their wisdom by their ordinances, and their power by their virtues, and how beautifully the world will behold emperium in emperio.

Recenty there has been much said about the powers of the Municipal Court of said , because that court had the right to issue writs of under “their own ordinances.” Any man that objects to this power of the Municipal court is ignorant of the vested rights of the constitution of the , for ‘the privilege of the writ of habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion and [p. [3]]