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Show {7 .‘iOC'J ) ( 107 ) tions, the Advantage which might it: made h‘ public Carriers and others of this Branch 0‘ their Bulinels is taken away; and the Prifliztge of Ferries is declared to be free for the Poll, the: rci't-ymen being compellnble immediately on Demand to give their Labour without pay, and the Proprietors being obliged to furnilli the I'Vicans of Prillhge to the Puff without R ecom pence. Thele Provifions are. indeed very proper, and even necefhnyg but certainly Money levied by fuch Muthndg, the lilibe‘t of which is intended to be .3 Monopoly of the Carriage of Letters to the Ollicet's 01' this Revenue, and by Means of which the People are tinted to pay the Rates impoled upon all lhCll‘COi‘l't'll‘N'tllthDL't), is a public Tax to which they mull lubrnit, and not meerlya ix'iice required of them for 71 gni~ vate Acconnnodntim. ' ‘he. Aét treats this All-'1‘ the Britzflr Foliage upon exntlly the lln'ne l‘oota ing, and exprelly calls thtin both (2 thmvxzzcx The Preamble of it declares, that the new i=1 ates are, fixed in the Manner therein liwciliul 'intli a. View 10 mazh't: in"? fife/{ll} 272/5713 film/my [t7 we :31 072 malffrn}? zi'ze r'i'hr. ‘he Sum of "701:1. fir)" \V‘eelt out of all the ' ‘i'zf'cx mating; f; em time 10 time 5y ‘L'z'rim f 3,53,: épropintted for that J‘urpole, and ' Sn'plus alter . lufti rs, was made part. of the civil Li Revenues~ ' continued to he. thus applied during C fine of George I. and, George II. and on h.is "‘ a . "trit‘liyi's ACCeiiiOrl to the I‘hronewhen the ,ill‘ was put upon a gittcrttnt Iths‘nlin; ':-' ‘, the [Jolt Offic e RC- venues were Cdl'l'lf‘ti nuth the others to the rug-gragm; [FE/75's 50 5'? flip/{:15 to the Uj/E'r, to taint/z I93." :1 tr j'ézid Fund 1'5 arflml] he (II/plz'métk. If all their" (liretnnllances do not eonliztne ii 112x, 1th not know what do: the SIRIUP limits are not marked with fironger (. hztrnFtt-rs, to entitle them to that Denomination ~, and with 31h CO; to the Application of the 1?. young the. Power of the Pariiament of szz ,,"?;ifz7f;z (L‘VEI‘ the Colonies was then held up n; , L9; '~ Ty . "'t has been upon the prelent 02:21: on: ' "venue arifing from the Foliage in zfmriimzz is blended with that of 1):: .sfi', is applied in Part to the carrying on of :1 continental War, and miter public Purpofes ; the lien-minder of it to the Support of the Civil Lift; and now the whole or it to the Dileliatgje of the National Debt by Nleans of the aggregate Fund; all thefe are Services that are either national or particular to Great Fri/am -, but the, Stamp Duties and the others that were laid lull; Year, are ap- propriated to luch Services only as more pattic‘uldrly relate to the Colonies ; and finely if the Right of. the Brili/i'i i'n'l'itnient to impole the one be acknowledged; that of laying on the Other cannot be (lilputetl. The Pod-Office has indeed been called :1. meet Convenience -, which- therefore the PCOpic alwayscheerfully pay for. After what hzi~ item lititl, this Oblervation re< quires very list x Notice ; l will not call the Pro« teftion ant' Sceuz'ity of the Colonies, to which the Duties in qsieiiion are applied, by to low a l‘iame :15 3 Convenience. '1 he Inftances that have been mentioned prove, that the light of the Parliament 01' Great Britain to impbie Taxes of every Kind on the Colonies, has been always admitted; but P were |