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Show 203 ACTS REiATINC Part IL " tations, are zY/:‘gzi/, 72:1", and $67111, to all " intents and purpol‘es whatloever." Thus far the ftatute;--than' which a fuller and more formal exemplification and adertion of the fupremacy of parliament over the colonies, in all matters What-foever, can hardly be imagined; and this. a fiatute, one of the xprcfs purpol‘es of which is the laying taxes for the purpofc ofa revenue. The fame a8: orders and limits the in<~ terual rights of the colonilts ; for it pre- eludes the colonifls from alienating their lands in favour of other than natural born lirbjeéts. In the reign of queen Anne, an aét *" was paired laying rice and molarfes under the fame prohibition of exportation to any Sec‘t. XI. To THE COLONIES. 57 flrated, and with reafon, againfi fome of the provilions of this 518:, they at that time (lid not lo much as argue againf'c the principle * They conceived, and endeavoured to thew, that the power of par~ liament had been impoliticly exercifed; but they did not yet go to far as to fay, that the power itfelf was uneonftitutional. I do not mean to defend all the provio vifions of this a&.-I am ready to allow, on the authority of governor Bernard, that the duty it impofed on foreign molallES was higher than it ought to have been T. I am difpofed to allow, on. the fame authority, that a difiinétion ought them. See Proceedings of the Colonies in confe- foreign market, as the other commodities quence of the Stamp Act, prefixed to the Charm enumerated in the 25 Car. II. c. 7. Another aéi; was palTed in the fame reign, granting bounties on tar, pitch, ters. * They touched it, Mr. Burke acknowledges, rofin, turpentine, hemp, &c. This 38: very tenderly, Speech, p. 52. "r The a6]: impofed three pence per gallon on foreign molafl‘es, governor Bernard thinks three half-pence or two pence at molt {hould be impaled. See the Governor's fifth letter, '3‘ See 3 8t 4. Anne, c. 5. forbids S to |