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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1761-1771
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 293

Britain, That, in this very Instance of the Stamp Duties, The
Penalties, which by the American Stamp Act were made
recoverable without a Jury before a Judge of the Vice Admi-
ralty Court, are by the Laws now in force for Collecting the
Stamp Duties in Great Britain recoverable also without a Jury
before two Justices of the Peace with the like Powers in both
Cases, which we earnestly wish were not still more necessary
for the Collection of the Publick Revenue in America than in
Great Britain: and which we shd be most desirous, if possible,
to Alleviate in both Countries, With this View, & to take
away all Just Occasion for Discontent. We were very glad
to find by the Representation from the late Commissioners of
the Treasury to his Majesty in Council, Dated on the 14th day
of July last, That the strictest Attention had been given by
that Board to prevent the Inconvenience & Injustice above
mentioned, by a Plan to Establish three different Courts of
Vice Admiralty, at the most Convenient Places, with proper
Districts Annexed to each: and to give the Judges Sufficient
& Honble Salaries in lieu of all Poundage & Fees whatsoever.
But We cannot observe without the highest Concern & Sur-
prize That this Representation, founded on a Clause inserted
in the Stamp Act for this very purpose, & expressly Calcu-
lated to relieve His Matys Subjects in North America, from
many Unnecessary Hardships and Oppressions to which they
are now liable by many other Laws still Subsisting, shd be
totally disregarded for several months, and be Suffered to
remain unexecuted in every part of it even to this day: and
that no Notice whatever shd be taken in any of the dispatches
from the present Administration to the Governors of the
Colonies in North America of the timely care exerted to
Obviate the Objections raised on both those Heads, especially
as it is Notorious, that the measures to be pursued in Conse-
quence of that Minute & Represent" had been fully Opened
& Approved in Parliament at the time when the Stamp Act
was Proposed : And as the total Neglect of it has given Occa-
sion to great Clamour & Dissatisfaction in the Colonies We
cannot help further observing, that as the Stamp Act was not
to take place till the Ist of Novr if the Parliament had been
called early their Determinations either for enforcing or
repealing that Law would probably have delivered the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers here, from all the Difficulties & Dis-
tress to which they have been for so many months exposed
nor could the Disorders in America where all Governmt is
Prostrate, have Arisen to so great a Height, or taken so deep
a Root.
3d Because the Argumt. which has been used in favor of
this Bill of Repeal that the Experiment of the Stamp Act has

 

 

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