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Show [P. P.] 390 Aggrievances QfPeIg/j/[vmzim 391 Report eff/ac Committee of Neverthelefs the proprietaries of this province, the credit of the government has been preferved, and the debts of the public puné‘tually difcharoed. in contempt of the faid royal grant, proprietary In fhort, n0 inconveniencies, but great and mtany charter, and law of their colony; defigning to fubvert the fundamentals of this conf'titution, to de- advantages have accrued, from the aliembly's pru- dent care and management of thefe funds. Yet the proprietaries refolved to deprive the af- prive the affembly and people of their rights and privileges, and to alfume an arbitrary and tyran- nical power over the liberties and properties of his Majefiy's liege fubjeéts; have fo reflrained their femblies of the power and means ofjir/ymrz‘iizg flll agent in England ,- and of profecuting their com- plaints and remonflrating their aggrievanees, when governors by the (I'tflaotir iiyirz/fliom, (which are injured and oppreffed, to his Majefty and his par- not to be varied from, and are particularly direc- liament: And to rob them of this natural right, (which has been f0 often approved of by their gra- cious fovereign) have, by their faid inflrue‘tions, prohibited their governor from giving his aflent to any laws emitting or re-emitting any paper-cur- rency or bills of credit, or for railing money by tory in the framing and pulling ofmoney bills and fupplies to his Majef'ty, as to the mode, meafure, and time ;) that it is impofiible for the aflembly, {hould they lofe all fenfe of their moft elfential rights, and comply with thofe inf'truétions, to grant fuflicient aids for the defence of this his Majefiy's province from the common enemy. ‘T/Jird/ , In purfuance of fundry acts of general affembly,approved of by the crown, [and] a natural right inherent in every man antecedent to all laws ; the ailemblies of this province have had the power excife or any other method; unlefs the governor or commander in chief for the time being, by claufes to be inferted therein, have a negative in Me difimfltim of the monies arifing thereby; let the languii'hing circumflances of our trade be ever {0 great, and a further or greater medium be ever {0 neceffary for its fupport. of dyj‘ofl/zg of the [me/it monies, that have been raifed for the encouragement of trade and fupport ofgovernment, by the interei't-money arifing by the loan ofthe bills of credit and the excife. No part of thefc monies was ever paid by the proprie- tarier, or ever raifed on their el‘tates; and there- fore they can have no pretence of right to a voice in the difpofition of them. They have ever been applied with prudent frugality to the honour and advantage of the public, and the King's immediate fervice, to the general approbation of the people: the Fourtb/y, By the laws and ftatutes of England, the chief rents, honours, and caf'tles of the crown are taxed, ‘andpay their proportion, to the fupplies that are granted to the King for the defence of the realm and fupport of government: His Majef‘ty, the nobility of the realm, and all the Britifh fubje&s,.do now aétually contribute their proportion towards the defence of America in general, and this province in particular ;. And it is in a more efpeeiall |
