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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
proposed to his Majesty's ministers to find out some method of compelling them to do it, and of assessing the several governments in proportion to their respective abilities. Minutes of Council, held at the camp at Alexandria, in Virginia, April 14, 1755, [and following days]. My copy is from that inclosed in Major General Braddock's Letter of 19 April, 1755, to the Secretary of State. This imposing document Braddock sent forthwith to the ministry, himself also Memoire contenant le Precis des Faits avec les pieces justificatives, 188. Une taxe sur les domaines de sa majestie. Braddock to Sir Thomas Robinson, 14 April, 1755, in the State Paper Office, Am. and W. I. LXXXII. urging the necessity of some tax being laid throughout his Majesty's dominions in North America. Dinwiddie reiterated his old advice. Sharpe recommended that the governor and council, without the assembly, should have power to levy money after any manner that may be deemed most ready and convenient. A comm