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Show ALBANY PAPERS. no [Az B.T.] The making of laws fuitable for the new colonies, it was thought would be properly veiled in the Prefident General and grand council ; under Whofe protection they will at firfi necef- farily be, and who would be well acquainted with their circumftances, as having fettled them. When they are become fufliciently populous, they'may by the crown, be formed into compleat and difiinét governments. The appointment of a Sub-prefident by the i111: :' g In t M Him '1'" marry M59" 't'wr'mrrrri W l crown, to take place in cafe of the death or ab- fence of the Prefident General, would perhaps be an improvement of the plan; and if all the governors of particular provinces were to be formed into a'fianding council of Rate, for the advice and afliftance of the Prefident General, it might be another confiderable improvement. 2 Itance, {uppofe one thoufand men fhould be wanted in New Haley/bah on any emergency; to fetch them by fifties and hundreds out of every colony as far as Soutb Carolina, would be inconvenient, the tranfportation chargeable, and the occafion perhaps pafl'ed before they could be affembled ; and therefore that it would be befl: to raife them (by offering bounty-money and pay) near the place where they would be wanted, to be difcharged again when the fervice fliould be over. Particular colonies are at prefent backward to fay will be equally ufeful to their neighbourino colonies; who refufe to join, on a prefumptiorci l 1';l; j Rafi Soldiers and £911sz Vrmfels, 8m. l,l: l That they raife and payp‘foldiers and build forts for the defence of any of the colonies, and equip veilels of force to guard the .coai'ts and protect the trade on the ocean, lakes *, or great rivers; but they {hall nfot imprefs men in any colony without‘th‘e ‘confent of the legiflature. " [‘ According to a plan which had been propofed by Governor ' Pawnul], and approved of by eongrefs.'-(Adminiflrarion of the t and paid by the feveral colonies, and joined for any public fervice, could not always be got to- gether with the neceflary expedition. For in- build forts at their own expence, which they I colonies, Vol. 11.1.). 148. Oft/Je P/zz/z (fUnioIz. 11'; It was thought, that quotas of men to be raifed E It that fuch forts will be built and kept up, though they contribute nothing. This unjuft conduct weakens the whole; but the forts being for the good of the whole, it was thought belt they {hould be built and maintained by the whole, out of the common treafury. In the time of War, fmall veilels of force are fometimes necefl'ary in the colonies to fcour the wait of fmall privateers. Thefe being provided by the Union, will be an advantage in turn to the colonies which are fituated on the (ca, and whole frontiers on the land-tide, being covered by other colonies, reap but little immediate benefit from the advanced forts. Power |