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Show i" 524 l eonleqnently, would at once have been an 05:?" mal Surrender oriall their Privileges as Brit/[XI Sub" jects. "If Precedents were to be regarded, when 1 Tax in flimrim, for the. flag/e Purpafe of [rat's/mt: is required, they are not wanting. Upon fuch Oe- eal'ions, the Courl‘e' hath always, and uniformly been, 'till the lmpolition of the Stamp-Duties, to tranlinit Requilitions to the Colonies; and, if the lnltance Cited by the Examiner, is, in any Degree pertinent, he has lhewn in his Appendix, that the. EVIethod of Requilition was in t/Jmf purlucd -, for, the Lords of Trade, in their Report, exprelsly mention the Retinal ofthe Colonies to comply with the Requilitions tranlinitted to them, to re- move the Grievance complained of. The Claule in the Mutiny Act during the late War is ailo relied upon, [55] penfiibly neceflary that this Difcipline {hould be eltablilhed by 1132‘ of Parliament, the Authority of Provincial chzflczz‘nrrr being deemed to be incom- petent. And it is to be remarked, moreover, that the Provincial Troops were railed and paid by the Colonies, and that it was in the Power of their All leinblies, a Power exerciled by fume of Them, to difband or reduce Them when They plcaled, and therefore their lupporting and keeping them up, was an efl‘e-Ctual Content to theAél of Parliament; but, as hath been lhewn, an internal Tax may be as com- pleatly and adequately laid in every Colony, by the Authority of the refpefiiw Aflemb/ies, as by the .82?!ny Parliament, and therefore there 15 not the lame Necefiity for the Interpofition of the Mother Country in this, as in the other Infiance, and the Colonies with Reference to the Stamp-Act, are not: called upon to do any Act exprellive of their A1lent to it, nor is it in their Power to hinder it's taking Enter in the fullel‘t Extent. but with how much Propriety, l‘ew Words will evince. The Acts of Aflenibly of each Colony, coul d have no obligatory Force beyond the Limi each ; but the Service of the Colony Troo ts of ps, was not confined within the fame Colony in which They were railed -, it is therefore evid ent that the Provincial Legillatures, ' had not an Authority adequate to the great Object of the military Operati ons in .fi'mcrim, which was not merely the Dev fenc e of the Plantations, by Meafures exec uted within their Boundaries, but the Enemy was at- tached in his own Country, and for this Purpoli: the Briz‘iflJ and A'merimn Troops atfie d conj On this Occalion it was not only convenie une‘tly. nt, that the‘Troops employed in the fame Service, {hould be‘lubieét to the fame Difcipline, but it was indifPenfably H . , _ . fl (r, .1 I he A& for the Eflnb/rflammt cf a Fifi-Owls m t17t'C0/0ni55 (9 zlzme, c. 10.) comes the heated to the Subject of any l-{equlation that hath been men~ tioned; but yet it is materially thflingtnliiablc iron} ‘ u the Stamp Act. n ‘7‘ . -‘> '- , I nf 1 [- For the lame thaion trza an Ace of Parliament was neceliary to lecurc tne pitch pline of the Provincial Troops, flel‘lng in Loryuncv . , w, m V l' ,,. tron With the BULL/.1.) lforccs, during5 LIL late \‘vzu, the Authority of Parliament might be prurieiri()r "A l‘_ \V ‘»1 11~ ton "HY \‘ilva "guild " or i 7‘ \:.Tltt, the general hilabhlhmem for as the Laws or each Colony atom their Cherry 'tion confined within the Limits or each, pronior.1 ) y and con'ipullive Claules to intorce a genera ‘ lervance, without which the tillaohlnnaeizt would ' , might ‘ ~ be2 elrudto. =1 ‘lr" .a min "a 11101} fin: A, dpdmilli' give a Wound in one Lu.CD), a: 1‘ ' L' 9 wounoed |