Die Schweiz

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Identifikator:: 1008917265

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19129

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Flückiger, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/117736708

Title:: Die Schweiz

Edition:: Zweite Auflage

Place of publication:: Zürich

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Schultheß & Co.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 243 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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r Essays 113 an advantage from persons travelling with the post. Q. If the Stamp Act should be repealed, and the crown should make a requisition to the colonies for a sum of money, would they grant it? A. I believe they would. Q. Why do you think so? A. 1 can speak for the colony I live in; I had it in instruction from the assembly to assure the ministry that, as they had always done, so they should always think it their duty, to grant such aids to the crown as were suitable to their circumstances and abilities, whenever called upon for that purpose, in the usual constitutional manner; and I had the honor of communicating this instruction to that homorable gentleman then minister.r 1] take the following to be the history of this transaction. Until 1763, and the years following, whenever Great Britain wanted sup- plies directly from the colonies, the Secretary of State, in his Majesty’s name, sent them a letter of requisition, in which the occasion for sup- plies was expressed; and the colonies returned a free gift, the mode of levying which they wholly prescribed. At this period, a chancellor of the exchequer (Mr. George Grenville) steps forth, and says to the House of Commons: “We must call for money from the colonies in the way of a tax”; and to the colony agents: ‘Write to your several colo- nies, and toll them if they dislike a duty upon stamps, and prefer any other method of raising the money themselves, I shall be content, provided the amount be but raised.” ‘‘That is,” observed the colonies, when commenting upon his terms, *“ if we do not tax ourselves, as we may be directed, the Parliament will tax us.” Dr. Franklin's instructions, spoken of above, related to this gracious option. As the colonies could not choose ‘another tax,” while they disclaimed every tax, the Parliament passed the Stamp Act. It seems that the only part of the offer which bore a show of favor, was the grant of the mode of levying; and this was the only circum- stance which was not new. See Mr. Mauduit’s account of Mr. Grenville’s conference with the agents, confirmed by the agents for Georgia and Virginia; and Mr. Burke's Speech, in 1774. 266) wT

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