and again undertook to "give and grant rates
and duties to be paid in these Colonies," for the
express purpose of " raising a revenue, to defray
the charges of the administration of justice, the
support of civil government, and defending the
Kings dominions," on this continent. The pe-
nalties and forfeitures, incurred under this Sta-
tute, are to be recovered in the same manner,
with those mentioned in the foregoing Acts.
TO this Statute, so naturally tending to dis-
turb the tranquillity then universal throughout
the Colonies, Parliament, in the same session,
added another no less extraordinary.
EVER since the making the present peace,
a standing army has been kept in these Colonies.
From respect for the mother country, the inno-
vation was not only tolerated, but the provin-
cial Legislatures generally made provision for
supplying the troops.
THE Assembly of the province of
New York,
having passed an Act of this kind, but differing
in some articles, from the directions of the Act
of Parliament made in the fifth year of this
reign, the House of Representatives in that Co-
lony was prohibited by a Statute made in the
session last mentioned, from making any bill,
order, resolution or vote, except for adjourning
or chusing a Speaker, until provision should be
made by the said Assembly for furnishing the
troops within that province, not only with all
such necessaries as were required by the Statute
which they were charged with disobeying, but also