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Show no Aers RELATING Partlh "eét II. " impolitions, for z‘frefimcc of {twenty and " one year: * upon all goods and merchan- To 't'HE COLONUZS. 117 other of the king's dominions, except only the five pounds per centum, due for " difes, {22‘ (my [rim or £23723; berm/tar, cit cultom upon all ftch goods and mer- " ther upon importation thither, or excliandifes as after the e:;;ir;;tion of the " portation from thence, into England, or {aid feven veers lhall ‘r imported into "11:27.35" , or other the king's domini- .14 *‘ I can have no real-on to doubt of i\dr. i‘vlauduit's accuracy. I {upge'e therefore this is :1 trim copy. The reader will, however, remark, that it diEers efl‘entially from the {econd charter of king James, cited above. There a total exemption from taxes and impofitions is granted for [twenty-mu years, here only for {even ; there five per cent. is the fare petual taritt after the expiration lot the twenty‘one years, here it is the tariff after the expiration of five); years, and to continue only for tummy-one years. In the firt't infiance the king reneunces (1/! right of impofing taxes for a certain confidemtion for ever, here he renounces it for the fame confideration, but only for twvm‘y and am: yard. I own, however, from the turn of this whole elaufe, it looks as if the words-" for the {pace of twenty " and one years "‘had crept in by tome mittake of the tranfcrihcr. If it had not, inflead of {trying " at " any time or times hereafter," it (houhl have been, " at any time or times within the {aid twenty and " one years ;" and {0 again, after the word " thenceforth" {hould have followed, " during :,...:ons, ."h five pounds per centum all/y, l‘ 1119; paid, it {hall Meme/firm be lawful to export the {a re goods, &c. into foreign parts without any cui'tom, Exec. to be paid." The rights of natural-horn fiihjec‘l's lztv'e in England, and within any of the king's dominions, are prefervcd to the lettlers and their children. In favour of thofe who were to fettle this tax, this is the Whole ofwhat was fiipulated; and thefe therefore are all the privileges to which the prefent colonill's can be under- flood, under this charter, to have fucceeded. The governor, aflif'tants, and freemen, in England, {land on a very difterent foot- " the faid twenty and one years." ing; they indeed in their general courts " other I 3 are |