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Show [42] Q If the a& fliould pals, requiring the American allemblies to make compenfation to the fufferers, and they fhould dif- obey it, and then the parliament fhould, by another aet, lay an internal tax, would they then obey it .9 A. The people will pay no internal tax; and I think an aét to oblige the afl‘emblies to make compenlation is unneceflitry, for . am oi opinion, that as [con as the pre- lent heats are abated, they will take the matter into coniideration, and ifit is right to be done, they will do it of themfelves. 0% Do not letters often come into the polt-ollices in America, directed to fome inland town where no poft goes? A. Yes. Q; Can any private perfon take up thole letters, and carry them as direéted? A. Yes; any friend of the perfon may do it, paying the poitage that has accrued, Q," but mull not he pay an additional pofl'agre for. the dif‘tance to fuch inland town i' A. No. _ Q; Can the poft-maf'ter anfwer deliver- ing the letter, without being paid fuch additional poitage ? 1A. Certainly he can demand nothing, Winre he does no fer-vice. Q Suppofe a perfon, being far from hmnzr, finds a letter in a poit-oihee di- reétcd [43]. refted to him, and he lives in a place to which the poft generally goes, and the letter is direé‘ted to that place, will the pelt-matter deliver him the letter, without his paying the pot‘tage receivable at the place to which the letter is diree‘ted. A. Yes; the otlice cannot demand portage for a letter that it does not; carry, or farther than it does carry it. . Are notferrymen in Ariieriea, obliged, by act of parliament, to carry over the polls without pay? A. Yes. CL Is not this a taX on the ferrymeu P A! They do not confider it as inch, as they have an advantage from perforis tra- velling with the pod. Q If the I'tamp-aft {hould be repealed and the Crown {hould make a requifition to the Colonies for a tum of money, would they grant it P A. Ibelieve the' would. Q; Why do you think to P A. I can {peak for the Colony I live in ; I had it in inflrudtion from the afiem- bly to afl‘ure the minittry, that as they al.Ways had done, {0 they {hauld always think it their duty to grant fueh aids to the Crown as were. {nimble to their Cir~ eumltances and abilities, whenever called upon for the pui‘pofe, in the ulual cord-.7.- (£2 |
