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l a general civil list in every American province, and at his pleasure to grant salaries and pensions, limited only by the amount of the American revenue; the national exchequer was to receive no more than the crumbs that fell from his table. Hartley's Letters on the American War, 59. The proposition bore on its face the mark of owing its parentage to the holders and patrons of American offices; Compare De Kalb to Choiseul, 16 Oct. 1768; and Franklin, IV. 388. and yet it was received in t measures were, in their character, even more subversive of right than those of Grenville. He had designedly left the civil officers dependent on the local legislators, and consigned the proceeds of the American tax to the Exchequer. Compare Hartley's Letters on the War. Townshend's revenue was to be disposed of under the sign manual at the King's pleasure. This part of the system had no limit as to time or place, and was intended as a perpetual menace. In so far as it provided an indepen