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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 14
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for the Production of Tobacco, the general Staple Commodity
thereof, the Occupiers of such Lands have always been under a
Necessity of supporting themselves by raising Grain and Provisions
That a very considerable Part of the Lands of the said Province
tho' at the first Settlement thereof proper for the Production of
Tobacco have by long Cultivation been for some Time past rendered
entirely unfit for that Purpose, and the Occupiers of those Lands
for their Support to convert them to the raising of Grain especially
Wheat and Provisions upon which they now entirely depend
That such of the Inhabitants of the said Province whose Lands
are unfit for the Production of Tobacco have not any possible
Means of raising Money to pay the Taxes already necessarily im-
posed, and probably to be imposed on them towards his Majesty's
Service, and their own Defence and Security but by their Grain
and Provisions
That notwithstanding the greater Part of the Inhabitants of the
said Province are employed in the Cultivation of Tobacco their
general Staple Commodity, yet they also more or less depend for
their Support on the raising Grain and Provisions
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That for many Years past great Quantities of Grain, and Pro-
visions, have been exported from the said Province, not only to his
Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, and to his Plantations on the
Continent to the great and mutual Advantage of all his good Subjects
of those Islands and Plantations, but to Madeira, and several Places
in Europe
That by Means of the Restrictions laid upon the Trade or Com-
merce of the Colonies in America by the Act of Parliament made
in the thirtieth Year of his Majesty's Reign, entituled "An Act to
prohibit for a limited Time the Exportation of Corn Grain Meal
Malt Flour Bread Biscuit Starch Beef Pork Bacon, and other
Victual except Fish and Roots and Rice, to be exported to any
Part of Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre, from his Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations in America, unless to Great Britain, or
Ireland, or to some of the said Colonies and Plantations, and to
permit the Importation of Corn and Flour into Great Britain
and Ireland in neutral Ships, and to allow the Exportation of
Wheat, Barley, Oats, Meal, and Flour, from Great Britain to the
Isle of Man, for the Use of the Inhabitants there " great Quantities
of Grain and Provisions are now perishing on the Hands of many
of the Inhabitants of the said Province, notwithstanding the plentiful
Supplies that have been afforded to his Majesty's Fleets and Armies
in those Parts
That the great End and Design of the said Act we humbly con-
ceive was to prevent his Majesty's Enemies being supplied with
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