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Show i 70 l fequently pays as much for it. For there is great Reafon to imagine, that if thcfe Colonies were at .tJbCl‘ty to lend their Tobacco z'z/imca'itzte/y where they pleated, the h'larket in [Cite/2257123 would be as profitable as thofe of Ii'mme, l/o/A'zmi, &c.--But when the Tobacco, under the preient Regulation, is purchaied for Re-Exportation, the lfui'cliaim‘ undoubtedly confidcrs the Exoence he is to be at, before he gets to the foreign‘l‘vlarltet, as Part of the Price of the Commodity, and therefore lowers his Price to the Merchant in Proportion. The above Sum of 2/. for} c.1ch lleglliead, trial-it‘s 5 A 270'000: CO: 0 The Amount of the fundrv lmpofitions and Rell'rie. tions before mentioned, brought forward, - - - Total Amount of Taxes to‘ 1.- (r QEU'NGI 13: 4 "Mmm . (E's‘um‘ swam é 1'186'666: ‘3 : 4; Bqlides the above Amount of] 'i‘axes paid to the l‘v'lother- Country, the Colonies ini the 450,000: 00: Q /: 2'590'000 I---__ It appears then, that the whole Tax is upwards of 65 per Cent; and it, therefore, the artificial Value of One Hundred Pounds Worth of Briti/b Manufacture, (Cloth for Ini‘tance) is, according to the above Computation, 33 l. 63. 8 4'. there was, before the Stamp-A162, a Tax paid by the Northflmcr/rm/s, near double of that which is paid by the Inhabitants of England. If the above Sum of 33 Z. 6 .r. 8 d. is too low, and ought to be increafed, then the Tax on Nortbvflmerim, on the Ar. ticle of Manufaftures imported from Britain, muff alfo be increafed. It fhould feem that the Maxim of every Tax upon Labour falling ultimate/y upon the Confumer of its Produét, cannot be itriétly applied to the Product of the North-American Colonies. For, as Places) deprived in great Mealure of'the Benefit of Returns, they are by this Means {UbjCélZCCl to dead Freight, and moreover, being confined in their, Amount (fuppoling {100,000 'l‘axables, at the Coniiimption to a particular ManufaClure, and thc moderate Rate 0515:. each) or ~ of the Lands in North-Aiizcrz'az, (unreitrained by Aets of Parhament) you'd amount to - d they are obliged to fend their Commodities to form: l'ort in the Brilifl) Dominions, or (where Indulgence is granted to Tend tome of them to other ‘ 170111L x/iizrri :14 iii p p0 rt their own Civil ltiltablilhments, and pay Quit Rents to the > Crown and Proprietaries, to [77} Suppofing the clear annual Rents Commodities they export, being chiefly raw MaJ terials, they have not the Means generally in the :- i Power of other People, by railing the Price of Jotal Amount of~ Taxes pai d their Labour, to throw their Burthens upon other's; to our Mother Country, " and the Support ot‘our CithEltabliIlnnent, comm/1 ', but are, for the molt Fart, obliged, both in their 1'636'666: 13: 4 Exports and Imports, to fubmit to an arbitrary Date:- Suppofing a |