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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
of men in North America able to bear arms, and daily in the use of them. It becomes necessary that the colonies be early looked into, in time of peace, and regulated. Compare Clinton to Bedford, 17 Oct., 1749. Same to Lords of Trade, same date. As a source of revenue, William Douglas in Boston, a Scottish physician, publicly proposed a stamp duty upon all instruments used in law affairs. Douglas: Historical and Political Summary, i. 259. But the suggestion had nothing of novelty. In 1728, Sir William Keith had advised extending, by act of parliament, the duties upon parchment and stamps, to America, Sir Wm. Keith's Remarks on the most Rational Means, &c., &c. and eleven years later the advice had been repeated by merchants in London, with solicitations Proposals for establishing by Act of Parliament the duties upon Stamp Paper and Parchment in all the British American colonies. that won for the proposition the consideration of the ministry. Thus had the future coloni