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Show 494- PLAN RECONCILIATION. or? 495 found, might, however, have created the. ed, would not have been impofed on the fame relation between itfelf and the co- Americans who lonies, as between itfelf and the inhabi" Britilh fubjec‘ts who confirmed them. As to the [econd clafs, namely, goods exported from Great Britain to Ame»- tants of Great Britain. To communicate, and for ever to fecure to the Americans all the bleflings of the exported, but on the rica, the bill might have provided, that Britifh confiitution, [0 far as their local . no other duty fhould be laid on goods of circumfiances would permit, the bill might this clafs, than on the fame goods confumed in Great Britain. have laid down certain fundamental rules, which {hould for ever be obferved in the laying of impofis or duties. Thefe duties are laid either upon goods imported from America into Great Bri- tain, or on goods exported from Great Britain to America, or on goods tranfported from one colony to another, or on goods exported or imported to or from places out of the king's dominions. As to the firft clal‘s of goods, thofe imported from America into Great Britain, parliament might have left itfelf at full liberty to impofe what duties it pleafcd on the importation of them here in England. Whatever duties wcre thus impof- ed, As to the third and fourth elafs, goods tranfported from one colony to another, and goods exported or imported to or from places out of the king's dominions; parliament mull: have referved the full rights ofimpofing fuch duties as it law fit, becaufe that right is ellential to the re-- gulation of trade. That thefe impolls however might not be called internal taxes, the bill might have provided, that the monies arifing from thefe duties fhould not be paid into the exchequer flare, but to treafurers to be appointed by the crown, and accountable to the prawineial legit- 6 latures |