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The gentlemen were satisfied with these reasons, 
and approved the 3d and 4th articles; so they were 
to stand. 
The sth they apprehended would meet with diffi- 
culty. They said that restraining manufactures in 
the colonies was a favorite idea here; and therefore 
they wished that article to be omitted, as the pro- 
posing it would alarm and hinder perhaps the con- 
sidering and granting others of more importance; 
but, as I insisted on the equity of allowing all sub- 
jects in every country to make the most of their 
natural advantages, they desired I would at least 
alter the last word from repealed to reconsidered, 
which I complied with. 
In maintaining the 7th article (which was at first 
objected to, on the principle that all under the care 
of government should pay towards the supporting of 
it), my reasons were that, if every distinct part of the 
king’s dominions supported its own government in 
time of peace, it was all that could be justly required 
of it; that all the old or confederate colonies had 
done so from the beginning; that their taxes for that 
purpose were very considerable; that new countries 
had many public expenses, which old ones were free 
from, the works being done to their hands by their 
ancestors, such as making roads and bridges, erecting 
churches, court-houses, forts, quays, and other public 
buildings, founding schools and places of education, 
hospitals and alms-houses, etc., etc.; that the volun- 
tary and the legal subscriptions and taxes for such 
purposes, taken together, amounted to more than 
was paid by equal estates in Britain. That it would 
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