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Show 202 Acrs RELATING Part II. Seét. IX. that notwithfianding the penalty impofed by the former act offorz‘y flu/[mgr a rod, the planting of tobacco in England did fli/l continua-This furely was no mean factifice to the welfare of America, and the fyfiem of zfzonopoly is not entirely in favor of England. Though the penalty for planting tobacco in England or lreland, impofed by this 1:19: a't, was no lefs than ten pounds a rod, {till the profits ariting from it were. {0 great, that this provifion was infuflicient to prevent the planting of it; and therefore, by another a8; *, power is given to juftices of the peace " to plot/s up and ut- TO THE COLONIES. 203 and preventing their trade from being divetted elfewhere than to this kingdom, " " " " 5‘ which hath (fays the aft) and doth daily fufiier great prejudice by the tranfporting of great number of the people thereof to the faid plantations for the peopling of them." About three years after this, the legifla~ ture went farther. It pafi'ed an act laying a tax for the purpofe of raj/Eng a revenue 1. This aét begins by allowing the importation of train-oil, Whale-fins, &c. mug/it and imporzedin Englilh velTels, free of all cuf'tonis and duties, and the importation of " terly deliroy " all tobacco planted in England or Ireland. fill), &c. caught and imported in vefiels built in the plantations, on payment of The legiflature whillt it takes thefe eflicacious means of fecnring to the colonifls the monopoly of tobacco, repeats and en- certain 112ml"; there named. forces its former directions for keep ing them in afirmer dcpm ' "de/z'ce on Engl " and, It then recites, that the liberty which had been granted, of tranfporting free of all duty the produfiions of one colony to another, had been abuled,-that the co-lonifis were not content with enjoying this '1‘ 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 26. 7; 25 Car. II. c. :7. frecdox. |