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Show [ 2I ] that refpeét, with Ireland; they know you Unhappy difputes between the two houfes claim the fame right with regard to Ire- arifing, from the defeé'rs of that conflitu~ land, but you never exercifedt. tion principally, rendered all the bills but And they may believe you never W111 exerCIIe it in the Colonies," any more than in Ireland, unlels on fome very extraordinary occafion. ‘ Q But who are to be the judges of that extraordinary occafion? Is not the parliament? . one or two abortive. The proprietary's council rejeéled them. It is true, Mary- land did not contribute its proportion, but it was, in my opinion, the fault of the government, not "of the people. Q Was it not talked of in the other provinces as a proper meafure to apply to A. Though the parliament may Judge of the occafiOn, the people will think it parliament to compel them P can never exercife fuch right, till repre- it .was well known, that the people were fentatives from the Colonies are admitted into parliament, and that whenever the occafion arifes, reprefentatives will be ordered. Q Did you never hear that Maryland, during the lat": war, had refufed to furnifh a quota towards the common defence? A. Maryland has been much mifrepre-~ fented in that matter. Maryland, to my knowledge, never refufed to contribute, or grant aids to the crown. The aermblies every year, during the war, voted confiderable fums, and formed bills to raife them. The bills were, according to the conflitution of that province, fent up to the council, or upper houfe, for conCur- rence, that they might be prefented to the governor, in order to be enacted into laws. Unhappy » A. I have heard fuch difcourfe.‘ but as not to blame, no fuch application was ever made, nor any ftep taken towards it. Q. Was it not propofed at a public meeting P i A. Not that I know of. Q Do you remember the abolifhing of the paper currency in New-England, by aél: of allembly? ' ' A. I do remember its being abolifhed, in the Mafi'achufett's Bay. ' Q Was not Lieutenant-Governor Hut- chinfon principally concerned in that tranfaétion P ' A. I have heard fo, Q Was it not at that time a very unpopular law ? A. I believe it might, though I can fay little about it, as I lived at a diftance from that province. ' QWas |