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Show 298 Examination g'Dr. Franklin arr/"arc flag that there is no diflrereuce, and that if you have no right to tax them internally, you have none to [A2 D.T.] tax them externally, or make any other law to prefling of men, bind them. At prefent they do not reaion {0; but in time they may pollibly be convinced by troops on private houfes, and the like; there may be great impofitions that are not properly thefe arguments. Q, Do not the refolutions of the Penfylvania aflcmbly fay-all taxes ? A. If they do, they mean only internal taxes; the fame words have not always the fame meaning here and in the colonies. By taxes they mean in- ternal taxes ; by duties they mean cuttoms ; Thcfe Holt/é quo/nmolz: 2'22 I766. 299 A. They may mean many things; as imor of carriages, quartering taxes. ' 52, Is not the pod-office rate an internal tax laid by at": ofparliament P 14. I have anfwered that. 52., Are all parts of the colonies equally able to pay taxes? are their ideas of the language. A. No, certainly; the frontier parts, Which .2; Have you not feen the refolutions of the have been ravaged ‘by the enemy, are greatly difabled by that means; and therefore, in fuch Mafiaehufett's Bay afl‘embly? cafes, are ufually favoured in our tax-laws. A. I have. 52: Do they not fay, that neither external nor internal taxes can be laid on them by par~ liament P ' x1. I don't know that they do; I believe not. Q: Can we, at this diftance, be competent judges of what favours are neceflary ? A. The parliament have fuppofed it, by Claiming a right to make tax-laws for America : I think it impoflible. Q, If the fame colony fhould fay neither tax nor impolition could be laid, does not that pro- vince hold the power of parliament can lay neither P A. I {uppofe that by the word impofition, they do not intend to exprefs duties to be laid on goods imported, as regulations ofcozm/mw. 5%: What can the colonies mean then by im- pofition as diftiné'c from taxes .9 :2, Would the repeal of the Stamp-Act be any difcouragement of your manufaétdres? Will the people that have begun to manufacture d6"clineit? » ' -" A. Yes, I think they will; efpecially if, at the fame time, the trade is opened again, f0 that remittances can be eafily made. I have known feveral infiances that make it probable. In the war before latt, tobacco being low, and making little remittance, the people of Virginia x1. They" went generally into family-manufactures. Qq 2 Af« terwards, |