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Show Hi \r' 1.}; V41.4 ".th"What?" [ I5I l [ 150 ] a Tender of thofe Bills to be corfidered as an therefore they tool' efieé‘ttial Care that, whenever adequate difcharge of Debts, and a legal Re- the Time came, no Law, no Precedent, nor thefe difingenuous Arts with molt Succefs, were W1" WW ; thofe who were endowed with c/zzzrlercd Gave-ritmcnts, and who, in Confequence of the extra- ordinary Favours thereby indulged them, could I think it is very evident, that none but the mofi ltupid Ideot would he incapable of dill charging his Debts, Bonds, or Obligations ; and that too without advancing any Money. HOWEVER, as foon as the Bri/z‘flz Legiflaturc came to be fully apprized of this Scheme ofIni- quity, they palTed a Law, " to regulate and " refirain Paper Bills of Credit in his l‘vlauiel‘ty‘s " Colonies or Plantations, of _Z€v»lct:c-l§7czrzd and " Providence Plantations, Ccmzccfz'cui, the Ma- nominate or elect their own Council, and (if " zrc/zzcfi‘l's Buy, and New Hm;2j>/7;irc, in flinc- my Memory doth not fail me) their own Governors likewifegmat leaf't, who could grant fuch Salaries to their Governors, and with fuch "' rim; and to PREVENT THE SAME BEING LE" GAL TENDERS IN PAYMENTS OF MONEY."--This is the very Title of the Statute ; but for Limitations, as would render them too depen- further Particulars, and for the different Regula- dent on the Will and Pleafure of their PayMafters. Hence therefore it came to pats, that tions therein contained, confult the Aét itfelf, in the Colonies of Rhoda-[flared and Providence Plantations, szrzefiz'cut, the Mczflczc/zchct's Bay, and New Harm/fire; the Governors of theft: Provinces fuficrcd Mam/glee: to ca pcifzmdcd to give their Sanction to certain Votes and Refolutions oftheir AlTemblies and Councils 3 whereby Laws were enaéted firl‘r to ifTue out Bills Of Credit to acertain Amount, and then to make a 24th of Gccrge Il. Cap. 53, A'mzo 1751. Now will any Man after this dare to fay, that the Stamp- Aét was the firfi Caufe of DilTention between the Mother-Country and her Colonies 5" Will any Man {till perfift in maintaining f0 grofs a Paradox, that 'till that fatal Period, the Colonies lhewed no Reluctance to fubmit to the Commercial Regulations, no Difpofition to contell: the Authority, and no Defire to quef'tion the v the like Artifice to be authorized every where, ‘ sfii'lg‘fluui r .41; evade the Force and M wining even of this exprefs Law; at leafl‘ for a Time, and 'till the Legitlature could be firii'iciently apprized of the Injury defigned. The Colonil‘ts, who pi‘aétilEd thod this for getting out of Debt! And were "In BUT notwithlianding thefe writ: l"recautions, 1 1 ,, Tome of the Colonies founo ‘77 W ays and ltl‘liens to A molt co :pendious Me- Wt "UV-ID UV leafe from Payment. Prefcription, fhould be wanting, whereby the Mother-Country ought allErt her confiitutional and inherent Right over the Colonies. |