Richard Bland, Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Virginia |
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Page 87
... demand in Virginia since " they are Governed by different and independent Laws Precedents from them cannot be binding or obligatory upon 36 Government " in another colony . Bland closed his tract on the Pistole Fee by reiterating the ...
... demand in Virginia since " they are Governed by different and independent Laws Precedents from them cannot be binding or obligatory upon 36 Government " in another colony . Bland closed his tract on the Pistole Fee by reiterating the ...
Page 91
... demand legislative ap- proval of fees set in the colony , and suggested that the Assembly had " presumed to demand that as a metter of Right , which was here- to - fore indulged them only as a favour . " 41 A second attorney for the ...
... demand legislative ap- proval of fees set in the colony , and suggested that the Assembly had " presumed to demand that as a metter of Right , which was here- to - fore indulged them only as a favour . " 41 A second attorney for the ...
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... demand upon theore than because it threatened the traditional political authority of the Virginia Assembly . For those who were primarily concerned be- cause the governor's demand hurt their pocketbook , the final solution to the ...
... demand upon theore than because it threatened the traditional political authority of the Virginia Assembly . For those who were primarily concerned be- cause the governor's demand hurt their pocketbook , the final solution to the ...
Contents
An Apprentice Burgess | 31 |
The Pistole Fee Dispute ཎྜ | 95 |
The Two Penny Controversy | 123 |
Copyright | |
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