Volume I Part 16 (1/2)

_Q_ Are they acquainted with the declaration of rights? And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament?

_A_ They are very well acquainted with it

_Q_ How, then, can they think they have a right to levy money for the crown, or for any other than local purposes?

_A_ They understand that clause to relate to subjects only within the realm; that no money can be levied on them for the crown but by consent of Parliament _The colonies_ are not supposed to be within the realm; they have assemblies of their ohich are their parliaments, and they are, in that respect, in the same situation with Ireland When money is to be raised for the crown upon the subject in Ireland or in the colonies, the consent is given in the Parliament of Ireland or in the assemblies of the colonies They think the Parliaive that consent till it has representatives froht expressly says, it is to be by _common consent in Parliament_; and the people of America have no representatives in Parliament to make a part of that common consent

_Q_ If the sta the assemblies of the colonies to indemnify the sufferers by the riots, would they do it?

_A_ That is a question I cannot answer

_Q_ Suppose the king should require the colonies to grant a revenue, and the Parlia it, do they think they can grant a revenue to the king _without_ the consent of the Parliament of Great Britain?

_A_ That is a deep question As to my own opinion, I should think myself at liberty to do it, and should do it if I liked the occasion

_Q_ When money has been raised in the colonies upon requisition, has it not been granted to the king?

_A_ Yes, always; but the requisitions have generally been for some service expressed, as to raise, clothe, and pay troops, and not forthe American assemblies to make compensation to the sufferers, and they should disobey it, and then the Parliament should, by another act, lay an internal tax, would they then obey it?

_A_ The people will pay no internal tax; and I think an act to oblige the assemblies to make compensation is unnecessary; for I am of opinion that, as soon as the present heats are abated, they will take the ht to be done, they will do it themselves

_Q_ Do not letters often come into the postoffices in Aoes?

_A_ Yes

_Q_ Can any private person take up those letters, and carry them as directed?

_A_ Yes; any friend of the person e that has accrued

_Q_ But e for the distance to such inland town?

_A_ No

_Q_ Can the post paid such additional postage?

_A_ Certainly he can de where he does no service

_Q_ Suppose a person, being far from home, finds a letter in a postoffice directed to hioes, and the letter is directed to that place, will the poste receivable at the place to which the letter is directed?

_A_ Yes; the office cannot dee for a letter that it does not carry, or farther than it does carry it

_Q_ Are not ferryed, by act of Parliament, to carry over the posts without pay?

_A_ Yes

_Q_ Is not this a tax on the ferrymen?