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 throughout so great an extent of sew country, with such varieties of climate, wants, and circumstances.

6th. The differences of the long-established Codes of Law, Local Regulations, and Customs, in the two Provinces, and the opposition of their local interests.

The enacting Clauses of the Bill, according to our view of them, are liable to the following objections:

1st. They do not tend to diminish the expenses of the Colonies, remedy abuses, or render their Government less complicated and difficult.

2nd. They endanger or destroy the just right which His Majesty's subjects in Lower Canada enjoy by the existing Constitution, of not being taxed, or not having the proceeds of the taxes levied on them, disposed of, without their consent through their own Representatives.

3rd. They endanger the right which they now enjoy, and which is guaranteed to them in the most solemn manner, of preserving their existing laws and institutions, unless they consent by their Representatives to alterations.

4th. They impose unnecessary qualifications on persons who may be elected to serve in the Assemblies, and lengthen the duration of the Colonial Legislatures beyond the terms now established by law.

5th. They introduce among the Representatives