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Assemblies. Or, if the judges are to be appointed 
during the pleasure of the crown, let the salaries be 
during the pleasure of the Assemblies, as heretofore. 
13. Governors to be supported by the Assemblies 
of each province. 
14. If Britain will give up its monopoly of the 
American commerce, then the aid above mentioned 
to be given by America in time of peace as well as in 
time of war. 
15. The extension of the act of Henry the Eighth, 
concerning treasons to the colonies, to be formally 
disowned by Parliament. 
16. The American admiralty courts reduced to the 
same powers they have in England, and the acts 
establishing them to be reénacted in America. 
17. All powers of internal legislation in the colonies 
to be disclaimed by Parliament. 
In reading this paper a second time, I gave my 
reasons at length for each article. 
On the 1st I observed that, when the injury was 
done, Britain had a right to reparation, and would 
certainly have had it on demand, as was the case 
when injury was done by mobs in the time of the 
Stamp Act; or she might have a right to return an 
equal injury, if she rather chose to do that; but she 
could not have a right both to reparation and to re- 
turn an equal injury; much less had she a right to 
return the injury ten or twenty-fold, as she had done 
by blocking up the port of Boston. All which extra 
injury ought, in my judgment, to be repaired by 
Britain. That, therefore, if paying for the tea was