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Show 4o g,» numerous and linkin Colonies, are more . 3{5(.i e 2tl of George II. Chap By an Act of th nalties are impo ed fevers: prohibitions and pe tlons as {hell )cut an and infliéted on inch pe ugh fuch Ian-es arle defiroy white l'ines, laltho ts of a-Tovvndnpctaé growing within the limi penalties‘aie irfec :3} ready granted; and thefe 0 A - red in the Courts to be ill-2(l For and recove ving, ntsofGreatj-Britaingla iiiiyalty. The Mercha n, preferred a. etition in the gth of the {nine reig diflicultiles ing of the to Pailiament, complain ry of, tieth in It: they met with in the recove tl, which {ubyeéte Plantations; an Act as pafle toyuit debts and all real Ell-ates in the Colonies tt‘t'tfllflflfllflfl AND CLAIMé OF AMERICA; RITAIN Tm: Rioit'i‘s OF B the fame manner demands; and to be aliets, in faflion of debts dUt as in England, for the iiatis om anyf by Bond: The exportation ol' Hats fr 4t having confitlered the matter, came to at, Relolution, " That the Petition was frivo" Inns and groutitilele, a high infult uport " his Miic-tty's Government, and tending " to SHAKE OFF THE DEPENDENCY of " the bid Colony upon this Kingdom, to‘ " which in LAW and RIGHT The} OUGHT " TO BE SUBJECT." Complaint having, at the {time time, been made to the Home, " That the RepretEntatives of that Colony" " " " " " had CENSURED a perfon for giving eviv (lenee, before a Committee of the Home, in the cafe Ufa Bill then depending in Parliament 5" it was refolvcd, " That the" pulling {och centure was an AUDACIOUS‘ " PRLICEEDING, anti abigh violation of the " priwleges of :heHoufe." A Committee was e conveyance 9 ot' the Colonies, and even th ny. to another, 15 them by land from one Colo ies, by an Ail ‘rohibitetl, under tevere penalt (T . patied in the fame Setlion. accordingly appointed to enquire who were of Grievances;l heard by Countiel on the lubyet‘}; e Crown ha The chiefofthele was, " That th , by inftruéhmfii " reitrainetl their Governor intlance mull carry the proof of this pofi-a tion beyond the power of reply. In the year 174.0, the Houfe of Commons en ered into Ma a in the year 1733 tiic Pi'ovmce of the. Houl: on elmtett's-Bay pretentcd at Petiti to ‘ttt‘lgllt bu of Commons, praying; that they ue and dll' " in certain Cites relative to the ifi e emiillon " otal of Public Money, and th yfi Bills 0t Ctedit.'i The Comkrlts " of Paper- the nbcttors of this unwarrantable proceedu ing. ‘vVe may perceive, from the above Cir- cumttance, how jealous Parliament HAVE BEEN of their t‘npremacy and uncontrcu1~ able authority over the Colonies. Another a etmfideration of "the abufes committed " in the Colonies, in reipeét to the emiflion " of Paper Bills of Credit." After a long E examination, |