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6th. If granted, will remove many difficulties aty regulations 



of Trade, interfering with Ideas of Taxation. 

 7th. Will not be easily obtained, as curtailing the power of the 

 Crown & reducing the Minister's Levy & consequently 

 his Influence in Parliament. 



8th. Q r . as y? Dignity of Gt. Bn. must be preserved ; Whether 

 if No: 2. ii. 12. 13. 14 could be obtained, it may not 

 be prudent for the Colonies to consent to raise annually 

 on requisition made by the King by consent of Parlia- 

 ment, a certain proportion (however small) of their 

 last Provincial Tax equal to (suppose . . . thereoff) 

 when Britain pays 3/ in the pound to its land Tax ? 

 This Concession will so much please the greatest part 

 of the Nation, as to enduce them to yield more sub- 

 stantial Benefits, in particular No. 6. 

 9th. Granted. 



loth. Granted. 1 



nth. Granted. 2 



I2th. Granted. 



I3th. Granted. 



I4th. Acts relative to Admiraltry Courts to be re-enacted in 

 America Will never be granted & indeed unnecessary if 

 a Compact shd. be enter'd into. 



I5th. Granted. 



i6th. Granted. 



I7th. The Declaritory Act to be repealed, or explained so, as 



to be understood not to extend to Taxation but for 



regulation of Trade wch. is to be paid into the Treasuries 



of the Colonies. 



By the above Plan those other Grievances hung up in the 



Petition to the King will be (I conceive) removed & Harmony 



establish'd on a permanent foundation. 



[In Barclay's hand, and perhaps consisting of notes of a 

 conversation with Hyde. Franklin gives a different version, 

 though of generally similar tenor ; but Art. 12 is refused except 

 for repeal of the Boston Port Act and some amendment of the 

 Quebec Act, Art. 14 is agreed to, and Arts. 10 and 17 are de- 

 clared inadmissible.] 



IV. [REVISED HINTS] 



[? Feb., I775-] 



ist. The Tea to be paid for. 



2d. The Tea Duty Act to be repealed. 



1 Orig. text, Not likely to be obtained, except quartering. 

 2 Orig. text, add, or to be paid for by Gt. Bn. 



