The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . or Planta-tions in N. America or the West Indies; except only suchduties as it may be expedient to impose for the Regulation ofCommerce: the net produce of such duties to be always paidand applied to and for the use of the Colony, Province orPlantation in which the same shall be respectively levied insuch manner as other duties collected by the authority of theRespective General Courts or General Assemblies of suchColonies etc. are
The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . or Planta-tions in N. America or the West Indies; except only suchduties as it may be expedient to impose for the Regulation ofCommerce: the net produce of such duties to be always paidand applied to and for the use of the Colony, Province orPlantation in which the same shall be respectively levied insuch manner as other duties collected by the authority of theRespective General Courts or General Assemblies of suchColonies etc. are ordinarily paid and applied. II. And be it further enacted . . That, from and afterthe passing of this act, so much of an act made in the seventhyear of his present Majestys reign intituled An act forgranting certain duties in the British colonies and plantationsin America ... as imposes a duty on tea imported from GreatBritain into any Colony or Plantation in America, or has relationsto the said duty, be, and the same is, hereby 1 18 Geo. III. c. 12 (1778). Statutes at Large, vol. xiii. p. 180. PLATE XI Map of IRELAND to illustrate Chapter VII. Emery Walker Ltd. sc CHAPTER VII IRELAND AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH The independence of the United States of America chap. was formally established by the second Peace of s ^^ Paris signed at Versailles in January 1783. In the Thelast chapter the disruption of the Commonwealth has R^ohitionbeen represented as the inevitable consequence of a ^etl^sultstatesmanship in England which was unable to rise Englishabove the maxims of the commercial system. A of causes had long been disposing the mindsof the colonists towards separation. From the cir-cumstances which led to their settlement in Americathey were out of sympathy in various ways with theruling classes in Britain. More earnest in theirreligion, cleaner in their personal morality, at oncepurer and more democratic in their politics and of asimpler and more wh
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