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Show l AND CLAIMS OF A M E R l C A. 42 6.3 THE RiGrth or BRITAIN examination, they came to various Refoluc tions. They rcfolved, " 'l‘hat the Act pat- in the emiflion and circulation of Paper: Money. The New-England Gsvcrr n :nis, however, did not continue long to my an: " {ed in the 6th of (been Anne, afeer- " taining the rates of Foreign Coin inAme" ritza, had not been duly ohferved. regard to ROYAL Inflrotlions, though too» ported and enforced by the authority ot the That Hon :3 of Commons. The frauds commit- " many indireét practices, in that refpec‘t, ted avakerxed again the attentizxr of" listzlis.» " had l:een introduced, contrary to the true " intent of the A&. That an Addrefs [hould " he pr'efented to his Majefizy to require " " "" " " (I 7 lNQClI‘HHUh the Governors of his Colonies to take citieétual meaE‘ures for the firié‘t obfervance of the A'Ct of the 6th of Queen Anne, That another Addrefs {hould be prefrnted, rrquefiing his Majefly to iflhe his Royal Proclamation, to fade and afccr-i " rain the mtcs of Foreign Gold Coins, 6‘ ‘VASH l That the (YREA'I‘ENG and ifliuing Bills of " Credit, in the Britifh Colonies, by vir" toe olir‘itfls efAfliemhly, had fruftrated‘ ‘4 the dcfign of the " it ofthe 6th of Queen "inns/i hat an humltrleAtldrefs of Thanks " {hould he prettnted to his Majefly, for the " orders he has already given on that head; 6‘ and, That he thould alfo be rcqueiled rnent. with of Georgy. ll. an Ail; was paired, " to 1-33.; .6: anti retlrzlin Paper-England " G ,verninents.i he Gwernors ol'. tints Colonies were prohibited, under pain of be- ing removed from theirGovernments, and forever rendered incaptble of any public Ofiice or place of trul‘l, from aferitirrg to any Ari}, Order, or Vote, for the Mine cl any Paper-bills of Credit; and all [och Frets, Orders, or Votes, were declared to he , Ilfi/O ' faflo, null and void. In the yea 174.1 the Colonies tool; up the idea of a LAND~BANL vhzeh had proved f0 unfuecer'sfnl in l: gl-nrl in the reign of King \Villinrn. ' " Anteri- can t'tfierrrtilies," it appsared to llarlrsrnenr, " lrrrd PRI‘LSUMED to publrth atelrcznelor d4 to require and command the Governors ‘6 of the refpedive Provinces, not to give (H their aflent to any Aét, whereby Bills of " in trnie, (C Credit might he itioed in lieu of Money." correct this evrl, an Aét was Pillt'Al, in tire 14th of George H. " to reilram and prevent '1" hefe fpirited Refolutions of the Commons checked, for tome tin") the ahnfes I», in " ("owl his a pretended want of at rnethnm . ' on n lcmtt A Built or letView{a or) '1' " leeurity, and to lolici: hmfm-rptrons. to linen |