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Show 428 PREFACE to Mr. Gallowa'y'x Spear/J. fix were repealed; {0 that it‘ feems thefe‘ good Gentlemen may themfelves be fou‘aetimes‘as wrong in oppoiing, as the allembly in enacting laws. '? the wards " lundameutally WR 0N L; and ' are the great fund of triumph to‘the its and their partizans. Thefe their iiipicaucn; Governors have unmercifully dinned in the‘ears cl the a'i3c1'11l>ly on all oceafions ever time; for they make a part of near a dozen of their meninges-They have rung the changes on thole word‘s, till they \Vol‘l;0d them up. to lay that the law was fundamentally wrong and urnuft in fix fiwrzzl 11l‘ilt‘ll'a‘; (Governor's nzeflhge, May 17/, 1764..) inllead of ‘ ought to be repealed, nil/3y: [1). P.] P/‘o/v'zi't‘drir: Objections to a Law. 429 there was not the leaf: doubt or fuppofition, that fuch landswere included in the m rds " all cftatcs " real and perlbnal." [the agents thcrcl‘orei", knowing that the allemlwly had no intention to tax thofe lands, mightwell litppol‘e theywouid readily agree to remove the o'né‘cizr ity.--Betbre we go far-- Iher, let it bco itrvcd, that the main delign of the proprietrn‘ies in oppoling‘ this act was, topr‘ru ‘Z‘t'lll [Km-r e/lzzm burl/g man! a! (2/1. But as they know that the doctrine of proprietary exemption, ‘which they had endeavoured to enforce here, could not be fupported tlaere*; they bent their Whole ftrength againft the act on ofzflrr principles ‘ fix alterations or amendments could he mace to procure its repeal; pretending great willingnefs to fubmit to an equitable tax; but that the ‘ therein.'-rt law uniult in ii); {ever-.11 articles, aflémbly, (out of mere malice, becaufe they had innit be an uniul't law indeed. Let us therefore, confcientioully quitreinakerifin for the church l) once for all, (inn/15m this unjui't law, article by were wickedly determined to ruin them, to tax all their unfurveyed wildernefs-lands, and at the article; in order to fee whether" our aflemblies have been {rich villains as they have been repre- highef'r rates,- and by that means exempt them- l'ented. {elves and the people, and throw the whole bur- . . The fizfl particular in which, their lordfhips propofed the act {hould be amended was, .‘ That ‘ the real ettates to be taxed, be defined rwzz‘t') prel‘ cj/z'an; to as not to include the umurveyed wafte ‘ land belonging to the proprietal12:53-11th was at mott but an oé/curz'zy to be cleared up. and though the law might well appear 1'.) their lordfhips uncertain in that particular: \Vlti.- us, who better know our own cufloms, and that tie proprietaries waf're unfurveyed land was never here den of the War on the proprietary family.-How foreign thefe charges were from the truth, need not be told to any man in Penfylvania. And as the proprietors knew that the hundred thoufand pounds of paper money, {truck for the defence of their enormous eftates, with others ,- was ac- tually iflhed, fpread through the country, and in the hands of thoufands of poor people, who had given their labour for it; how bafe, cruel, confidered'among efiates real, fubjeet to taxatllon; * [i. e. In England I fuppofe, when the laws were brought home to receive the King's affent. E.] t mere and ‘Mllllllillmi |