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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ition were publicly called upon to deny, if they thought it fitting, the right of the legislature to impose any tax, internal or external, on the colonies; and not a single person ventured to controvert that right. Upon a solemn question, asked in a full house, Cavendish, i. 494. there was not one negative. As we are stout, said Beckford, I hope we shall be merciful; and no other made a reply. On the fourteenth of March, Charles Jenkinson, Journal 8 of Commons, XXIX. 949, 978, 987, 1015, &c. from a committee, on which he had for his associates, Grenville and Lord North, reported a bill modifying and perpetuating the act of 1733, with some changes to the disadvantage of the colonies; an extension of the navigation acts, making England the storehouse of Asiatic as well — as of European sup chap. IX.} 1764. April. plies; a diminution of drawbacks on foreign articles exported to America; imposts in America, especially on wines; a revenue duty instead of a prohibitory duty on