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Show Sea. IV. U2 ACTS RELATING To THE CoLomes. 83 Part I. property of the kingdom in try/1‘ to apBut thefe powers and exemptions exceptportion that is necellirry to the governors ed, they are to every other pin-pole {ubjeét to the fupreme legillatnre of Great Britain. for the ends of government; and that What 80 that whatever power the {upreme legit- rem/21m after the payment of fuc‘n portion, and that «an/y is our property. lature of Great Britain could exereife over other fubjee‘ts, the fame it can exercile It appears farther, that when our confent, or the contignt of our reprefentative over them. It appears therefore, that unlelb an exemption from internal taxation by the fu- is laid to be neeellary to {itch appointment, the pcrleal content of each individual fubjee‘t, or of each individual reprefcnta- preme legillature of Great Britain he ative, is what cannot be intended. mong the exemptions thus lpeeilied, or For it has appeared that by far the great- neeel ary to the enjoyment of fame other power or exemption that fr t‘peeitied, or er part of the inhabitants of Great Britain do 7202‘ give their content either to the [so at leafi fueh as hath always been under{fig :1 tax, or to the namiimtz'an of thofe fiood on Hair part, and allowed on the "who levy them. part of the figfla‘z‘wu to be intended in the original charters, the fupreme legillatnre may exercife this power of internal taxation over its fubjeéts in America, under certain refirie‘lions. For it has appeared that by the pay- Nay, that in no period oftime they ever did. For at no time was this right attached to others than to burgelles of certsin boroughs, and to land- holders ot‘ a particular deleription. And it has therefore appeared, either of What is our Iii/‘cjg'm'ijr; that the Eritilh that reprel‘entation and taxation are not in- feparable, or that reprelbiitatitm means houfe of common: in veiled with the whole {omething different from what it has been ment of a tax we do not give up any part G2 PLOP/CH} by |