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Show lift. 222 ACTS RELATING K. 223 TO T1115 COLONIES. Part II. "B 1 hiseecount ofprohibition: yet certainly the governor do:3 not my f0.-He gives it only as his sthe matter clear. The, 21'1- v‘I‘as intendedto operate as an act of p;JIM/1w} , lo hr :13 to ice 111C a pre- e1..p (11 {gr/zed" 0/)2721'072, that it was " o/‘zngI/Ify tin of \IOELll :"1111C13c;1npmdnfiionsto the as an act of prohibition. Ciitilh \Vefl lndian plantations. It was But another pallage in the fame letter intended to operate as an 21a of revenn: of the governor, will give us to underfiand Whether the act was intended to operate merely as an act of prohibition; or whe- ther it was not intended to operate in fome upon all imports taken in exchange {or the 11' produce {old to foreign \Velt:‘elt of the Indian illands, after the liritilh "left-in- dian market 3 were liipplicd. meafure alfo as an act of revenue. Let us hear his words 2-" at the time of making " the act, (lays he) it was afierted by the Remark too how inlly the (mg/('21! of the colonies is implied/ in this £5752bra/1111.19 of all, and exIII1/1 {II/II L 01‘ loine.The1le " welt Indians, that as the Britifh \Velt who " c‘cxlsprorrzg/Z'," llatl}r deny the poli~ " " " ‘ Indian plantations were capable of talcing of? all the produce of North America, the fending {rich produce to foreign plantations ought to be difeouraged.----- " To this theNorthAmericans then anfwer- " ed, by denying (I believe with greater " truth) that the Britifh \Vel't Indian plan~ " tations were capable of taking of}w all " the produce of North America, lit for tiens on which the aft was pal}. Page. atft1 pi:e in the JOUl".1als is filled with their objections to the principle of the 25:, and with their prayers againfi its nailing. Thole who ‘ 1i'I/I‘rq" the :1.Lt,a re tholc ml 0 are not to pay a lhilling of the taxes it inipofes. ls. thistle come-xoiniie, this thed(1c 1rire, which C\)1‘11i-1‘.1""lL1)*p " the \Vel't Indian market." To This |