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Show 226 ACTS RELATING Part II. Seét. IX. TO THE Commas. 227 evident, beyond a doubt, that the original ‘ ties :-that where encouragement was ne- patentees did not confider themfelvcs as withdrawn from the power of parliament:--that parliament has at no time confidered itfelf as precluded from exerciling any a€t of it's fupreme authority over the colonies : that it has confiantly cellary to fecure, or extend their trade, parliament has bellowed it with a liberal hand :---that where the increafe, and :lou- rifhing {late of their trade, enabled them to repay, in part at leaft, what the mother- country had thus liberally advanced; the exercifed the/[1mg authority over them as over the ot/zer fubjec‘ts of the realm: that, in efiabliihing its fyflem of monopoly, it has alternately exerted,---at one time it's fame parliament, aéling as a faithful flew- ard for the whole empire, has Without helitation, apportioned the quota they flaould pay. fof'tering care, to fecure advantages to As, therefore, the exemptions, them :-at the fame time, or‘ at another, it's reflrié'tive power, to fecure advantages to the mother-country : that where the aéts of their fubordinate legiflatures have either now claimed by the colonif'ts, are neither fpecifically named in their charters; nor necellary to the exercife and enjoyment of fuch exemptions and powers as are nam- omittedto fecure, or attempted to break the ed: f0 neither are they fuch, as have been chain, which keeps them dependent on the either conl'tantly enjoyed and exercifed by mother-country,parliament has itfelfadded, or replaced, the links; the want of which would have broken the connection and de- pendence, by prefcribiug ‘new arrangements, and by letting new bounds to their interim! rights, privileges, and proper‘ ties : them, or ever allowed them by the parliament. |