XIV 
HINTS FOR CONVERSATION UPON THE SUBJECT OF 
TERMS THAT MIGHT PROBABLY PRODUCE A DURABLE 
UNION BETWEEN BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES 
1. The tea destroyed to be paid for. 
2. The Tea-duty Act to be repealed, and all the 
duties that have been received upon it to be repaid 
into the treasuries of the several provinces from 
which they have been collected. 
3. The Acts of Navigation to be all reénacted in 
the colonies. 
4. A naval officer, appointed by the crown, to 
reside in each colony, to see that those acts are 
observed. 
5. All the acts restraining manufactures in the 
colonies to be repealed. 
6. All duties arising on the acts for regulating 
trade with the colonies, to be for the public use of 
the respective colonies, and paid into their treasuries. 
The collectors and custom-house officers to be 
appointed by each governor, and not sent from 
England. 
7. In consideration of the Americans maintaining 
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