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Show 153 S POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL therefore they took eil'eé‘tual Care that whenever the Time came, no Law, no Precedent, nor Prelcription lhould be wanting, whereby the Mother Country might allbrt her coni‘titutional and inherent Right over the, Colonies. BUT I'Iotwitht'tanding there wile Precautions, fome of the lColonies found Ways and Means to evade the Force and Meaning even of this exprels Law; at leail. for a Time, anl 'till the Legiflature could be fulliciently apprized of the Injury (lefigned. The Colonilts, who praé‘tifed thefe difingenuous Arts With molt Succels, were thole who were endowed with c/iartmd CowmHMHH, and who, in Confequence of the extra ordinary Favours thereby indulged them, could nominate or eleel: their own Council, and (if my h'ieniory doth not fail me) their own G0vernors likewife; A-at lealt, who could grant liich Salaries to their Governors, and with inch Limitations, as would render them too depen- U B J E C T S. 159 a Tender of thofe Bills to be confide red as an adequate Difcharge of Debts, and a lega l Releale from Payment. A mof't compendious Me- thod this for getting out of Debt! And were the like Artifice to be authorized every where, Ithink it is very evident, that non e but the molt fiupid ldeot would be incapabl e of difcharging his Debts, Bonds, or Obligations; and that too without advancing any Money. HOWEVER, as foon as the Britifli Legiflature came to be fully apprized of this Scheme of Iniquity, they paired a Law, " to regulate and " refirain Paper Bills of Credit in his Majeily' s "Colonies or Plantations, of R/zode-I/land and "Providence Plantations, Comzeilz'c‘ztl, the Maf - "fczc/mfet's Bay, and New Hmnpflrz're, in Ame"rz'm; and to PREVENT THE SAME BEI NG LE- " GAL TENDERS IN PAYMENTS or MONEY."- This is the very Title of the Statute; but for further Particulars, and for the diflhrent Regulations therein contained, confult the Aé‘titfelf ‘, dent on the Will and Plealure of their PayMailers. Hence therefore it came to pals, that in the Colonies of [Usarl'e~[/ilmd and Providence Plantations, CaizzzséZirz/r, the iwzfllzc/mfrt's Bil)": and New Hampflzire; the Governors of [11ch Provinces fufiered t/zemfi/ms to be perfimdm [0 give their Sanction to certain Votes and Kelolu- the Stamp-ACT was the firfi; Caufe ofDilfen tion between the Mother Country and her Colonies P Will any Man fiill perlil't in maintaining i0 grofs a Paradox, that 'till that fatal Period, the Co- tions oftheir Afreiiiblies and Councils 3 whereby Laws were enacted firt‘t to iiTue out Bills of lonies fhewed no Reluctance to {ubmit to the COmmercial Regulations, no Difpofition to con- Credit to a certain Amount, and then to make tell the Authority, and no Defire to Qlefiion a the 24th ofGeorge lI. Cap. 53, A'mzo 1751. Now will any Man after this dare to fay, that |