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Show 4") Turn RIGHTS OF BRITAIN Ann CLAIMs on AMERICA: 47‘ confiderable, that the revenue arifing from in the 9th of (been Anne, an a& was it could not pay the expence of collection. But whatever might have been the main for NOT collecting the Duties of Tonnage paifed, impuhng certain Duties on all prize- and Poundage in the Colonies, the Law as follows: "All European goods (wine "and brandy excepted) which have been " ufuaiiy (ant to the Plantations, are to pay " THERE {uch Cufloms, as are payable for " the like goods imported into the Plantations "from Great Britain. Other goods taken as " prizes {hall be liable THERE to {och Duties " as were payable for the fame, by any Ac": of " Afiembly, in the raid Plantations." To their: Afis, {objecting his Majefly's {objects in America to Taxes impofed by the Britiflt Parliament, feveral others may be was certainly underf'tood to extend to Anterica. In the year 1680, the Ali/:mbly of the [Hand of Jamaica refuted " to raife .le" vies for the iupport of Government." Upon this refufal, the Lords of the Council made aMinute " to confer with the Judges upon "the quefiion: Whether the fubfidies upon " theTonnage and Poundage upon goods that " may by Law, or [ball be direélly carried to "Jamaica, be not payable, according to Law, "by his Majel'ty's {objects inhabiting that " liland, or trading there, by virtue of the goods taken in America, and imported into any of the Colonies. Thole Duties were " Aé‘rs of Tonnage and Poundage, or other The net of the 9th of Queen added. Anne, for cf'tablithing a Poll: office. The " Acts made in England 3" Unfortunately it does not appear, whether the conference Various afis pafibd for levying and inforcing the collection of the duty of fix'»pence per was ever held, or if it was actually held, month, out of Scamen's WQgC‘S, for the what was the rel'hlr. I The 25th of Charles II. cap. 7. is the fupport of Greenwich I-laofpital. All thete aé‘rs extend to America. They bind the Colonies, as well as the it"other-Country. next no that binds America, in point of laxation. By that Adt certain duties are Their authority was never diiputtd; and made payable in the Plantations, upon tug-at, tobacco, cotton-wool, indigo, ginger, logwood, fuiiic, and other dying the "fans imputed by them have been uniformly raifed. The aft of the 2d of George II. cap. 7. is {iill more explicit and dccifive It requires the payment of in the words. woods, and cocoa-nuts exported to any ther place, except England. Thefe Duties continue to be paid to this day. In the duties tor Greenwich Hoi'pital, " by feamen |