 to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America.  American Book Prices Current - Page 3571921Full view - About this book
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...levied." Thus was the claim of Parliamentary taxation fully, at last, renounced. The second Bill was to enable His Majesty to appoint Commissioners with sufficient powers to treat with the insurgent colonies. These Commissioners were to be five in number, and their powers most extensive.... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 pages
...taxes within his Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America : " and, 2dly, " A bill to enable his Majesty to appoint commissioners,...colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America." — " A dull, melancholy silence, for some time," says the Annual Register, " succeeded to this speech.... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 644 pages
...taxes within his Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America : " and, 2dly, " A bill to enable his Majesty to appoint commissioners,...colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America." — " A dull, melancholy silence, for some time," says the Annual Register, " succeeded to this speech.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pages
...exercise of the right of imposing taxes within his majesty's colonies in North America — the other to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with...colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America. His lordship said that he had been uniformly disposed to pacific arrangements, and that he was by nature... | |
 | J. R. Miller - 1844 - 742 pages
...imposing taxes •within his majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America :" and, " a bill to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners,...colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America." His lordship added, that it was intended to appoint five commissioners, and enable them to treat with... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America— 1778." The other, " A Bill (with the amendments¡ to enable His Majesty to appoint Commissioners with sufficient powers to treat, consent, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain o¡ the Colonies,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 pages
...exercise of the right of imposing taxes within his majesty's colonies in North America — the other to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with...colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America. His lordship said that he had been uniformly disposed to pacific arrangements, and that he was by nature... | |
 | William Bradford Reed - 1847 - 460 pages
...Plantations; and George Johni-tone, Esq., Captain in our Royal Navy, being our Commissioners appointed to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of our Colonies. Given at, &c., 12th day of April, 1778. Appointment Proceed to America Communicate arrival... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...appoint commissioners with sufficient power, to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quelling the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America." These bills were hurried through both houses of Parliament, and before they passed into acts, were... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 468 pages
...exercise of the right of imposing taxes within his majesty's colonies in North America — the other to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with...colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America. His lordship said that he had been uniformly disposed to pacific arrangements, and that he was by nature... | |
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