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 it true, that any uch exemption is contained in the Charter of Maryland, it can be pleaded only by the Marylanders. It is of no ue for any other province, and with regard even to them, mut have been conidered as one of the grants in which the King has been deceived, and annulled as michievous to the Publick, by acrificing to one little ettlement the general interet of the Empire; as infringing the ytem of dominion, and violating the compact of Government. But Dr. Tucker has hewn that even this Charter promies no exemption from Parliamentary Taxes.

the controvery agitated about the beginning of this century, whether the Englih laws could bind Ireland, Davenant, who defended againt Molyneux the claims of England, conidered it as neceary to prove nothing more, than that the preent Irih mut be deemed a Colony.