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 not eaily avoided, that they are ubject to Englih government, and chargeable by Englih taxation.

him that coniders the nature, the original, the progres, and the contitution of the Colonies, who remembers that the firt dicoverers had commiions from the Crown, that the firt ettlers owe to a Charter their civil forms and regular magitracy, and that all peronal immunities and legal ecurities, by which the condition of the ubject has been from time to time improved, have been exendedextended [sic] to the Colonits, it will not be doubted but the Parliament of England has a right to bind them by tatutes, and to bind them in all caes whatoever, and has therefore a natural and contitutional power of laying upon them any tax or impot, whether external or internal, upon the product of land, or the manufactures of indutry, in the exigencies of war, or in the time of