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Show 204 Acre neutrino Part ll. freedom from duties on goods tranfported for their owe wig/impticlz, in which they had a inanifef't advantage over the Iinglith, who paid large duties for the fame articles, but had tranl'ported and vended large quantities of their goods to at/zerfltz/u of Eu- rope. _ 1 Soft. EX. TO THE COLONIFS. 2 5 eonlidered as meant folely to Ngzmzfc the. trade, but are evidently intended to inf/u z; norms. he reafons alligned for thin 11(- fertion appear to be eonelnlive. The aé‘t declared, that the Enghl‘n tubieéts paid rz'rztz't‘r on thele commodmes, that To prevent this, it is ordered, that fe- the trade from one colony to another was . . 1; 1 . .‘ c . greatly martyr/rd. '1 hit] 15 at once 9111i t)'3"? curity {hall be given to tranfport all fuel} ing a reafim tar/gr the trade between one goods directly to England, \Vales, or Ber- colony and another co 11d ire-w [wt/2‘ the wick. In default of {uch fecurity a duty is imputed on certain enumerated good s, to be colleiled Mere in America by grader: iinpolition of duties, and pointing out the to be appointed by the eommitlioners of Inez/3:217 of duties to he impolt‘tl; accord- ingly the duties impoted by this aft on goods exported from one colony to an- the cufioms in Ens/rand, under the authou other, were the fame as were mic/1 paid on rity and direélion of the lord treafurer of England, or commifiioners of the treatilry. The penalties to be the fame as for nonpayment, or defrauding his ma‘efiy of his eufloms in England. It has been very jufily remarked 9", that the fame commodities confirmed in Eng:land. Thefe taxes therefore were en‘y‘w‘ti'mf' to be paid, and therefore were intended to wife a revenue. There is only 022:" exception to this :-~ the duty on logwood carried from one co~ the duties impol'ed by this aé‘t, cannot be lony to another, is to high as t > exceed the "' See Cozitl'overly between Great Britain her Colonies reviewed, p. 108. pollible profits of that. trade. In this inn and and" I" COII‘ A‘Mt,‘ |