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any other Expedient that shall be agreed on by the said Committees,
which may tend to promote the Utility and Welfare of the British
Dominions in America.
September 17th 1765. David Hall,
Benjamin Burton,
Levin Crapper,
Thomas Robinson,
Jacob Kollock, junr.
From the Province of Maryland,
William Murdock,
Edward Tilghman, Esquires.
Thomas Ringgold,
Instructions from the Honourable the Lower House of Assembly,
of the Province of Maryland, to William Murdock, Edward Tilgh-
man, and Thomas Ringgold, Esquires, a Committee appointed to
join the several Committees, from the several Colonies in America,
at New-York.
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Gentlemen,
You are to repair immediately to the City of New-York, in the
Province of New-York, and there join with the Committees from
the Houses of Representatives of the other Colonies, in a general
and united, dutiful, loyal, and humble Representation to his Majesty,
and the British Parliament, of the Circumstances and Condition
of the British Colonies and Plantations, and to pray Relief from
the Burthens and Restraints lately laid on their Trade and Com-
merce, and especially from the Taxes imposed by an Act of the last
Sessions of Parliament, granting and applying certain Stamp Duties,
and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America,
whereby they are deprived, in some Instances, of that invaluable
Privilege of Englishmen, and British Subjects, Trials by Juries.
That you take Care that such Representation shall, humbly and
decently, but expressly, contain an Assertion of the Rights of the
Colonists, to be exempt from all and every Taxations and Imposi-
tions upon their Persons and Properties, to which they do not con-
sent in a Legislative Way, either by themselves or their Representa-
tives, by them freely chosen and appointed.
Signed by Order of the House,
Robert Lloyd, Speaker.
From the Province of South-Carolina,
Thomas Lynch,
Christopher Gadsden, Esquires.
John Rutledge,
Who produced the following Appointment.
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