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Show 258 AU" IlLLATltx‘G Part If. to have been efiablilhed, if indeed it be pmflimb/e, between "the dili'erent forts of lumber; that if policy and a regard to our naval eflablilhment made it necelli‘try to reflrain the exportation of that fort which is ufed in {hip-building to our own dominions, we {hOuld have allowed them to export the other fort to foreigners, fuch as fiaves, or what was fit only for houfebuilding*. I believe, on the fame autho- rity, that proper regulations were not made for fixing the place where the courts of admiralty were to be holden: that the mode of paying the judges of the admiralty was exceedingly wrongT: 21nd tend~ ed to warp their judgment almolt againit the force of evidence. I believe on the Sect. XI. To THE Com‘m‘ts. 259 fame authority, that the order to fend all the money ariiing from thefe duties to his Majef'ty's Exchequer in England, wasa very imprudent one; that the charges ofdouble' remittance, and the flopping of the cirA culation of fuch a (nut for {0 long a time in America, Was an addition of near onefourth to the burthen to be borne by the Colonifls, and that Without anfwering any one good purpofe. I am ready to allow that thefe capital millakes at the very firft outfct in this new period, (lid not only juf'rify the co-; lonifis in the petition they prefented to‘ the Houfe of Commons on this Occ'afion, but would have entitled them to be heard with attention and favour, had they pro- poled to raife by their own afTemblies a *3 This reliraint is in part taken off by 5 Geo. tion: but that act, which began this new t'yt'tem, permanent revenue, always to bear a cer- tain adequate proportion with what the fubjeéls in Great Britain fhould pay; Or had they humbly petitioned to have the liberty of fending to the Britilh Parlian ought to have ccrreéied {uch capital defeats, merit a certain number of knights and Ill. c. 45. "i" They are paid by a poundage out of the Thefe two lull: named condenmution money. arrangements make no part of the a& in duet- fame S 2 burgefTes |