The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 387
... revenues they were asked to vote . This is the key to the struggle to obtain a permanent and adequate revenue and fixed salaries for governors which was fought out in long and bitter controversies during the first part of the eighteenth ...
... revenues they were asked to vote . This is the key to the struggle to obtain a permanent and adequate revenue and fixed salaries for governors which was fought out in long and bitter controversies during the first part of the eighteenth ...
Page 433
... revenue in America that could be used to free all his appointees from dependence on the popular body , and Parlia- ment was willing to appropriate money from the English Exchequer only in the cases of Nova Scotia , Georgia , and the ...
... revenue in America that could be used to free all his appointees from dependence on the popular body , and Parlia- ment was willing to appropriate money from the English Exchequer only in the cases of Nova Scotia , Georgia , and the ...
Page 669
... revenue it was ridiculous . Had revenue been aimed at , the substitution of the old tax of 12d . on tea when imported into England would , according to both Hutchinson and Franklin , have raised the sum required and provoked no ...
... revenue it was ridiculous . Had revenue been aimed at , the substitution of the old tax of 12d . on tea when imported into England would , according to both Hutchinson and Franklin , have raised the sum required and provoked no ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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