9thly. The restraining us from erecting
Slitting-Mills for manufacturing our Iron the
natural produce of this Country, is an Infringe-
men of that Right with which God and Na-
ture have invested us, to make use of our skill
and industry in procuring the necessaries and
the conviencies of Life. And we look upon the
Restraint laid upon the Manufacture and Trans-
portation of Hats to be altogether unreasonable
and grievous. Although by the Charter all
Havens, Rivers, Ports, Waters, &c. are ex-
pressly granted the Inhabitants of the Province
and their Successors, to their only proper use
and behoof forever, yet the British Parliament
passed an act, whereby they restrain us from
carrying our Wool, the produce of our own
Farms, even over a Ferry; whereby the Inha-
bitants have often been put to the expence of
carrying a Bag of Wool near an hundred miles
by land, when passing over a River or Water
of one quarter of a mile, of which the province
are the absolute proprietors, would have pre-
vented all that trouble.
10thly. The Act passed in the last Session
of the British Parliament, intituled, An Act
for the better preserving his Majesty's Dock-
Yards, Magazines, Ships, Ammunition and
Stores, is, as we apprehend, a violent Infringe-
men of our Rights. By this Act, any one of
us may be taken from his Family, and carried to