natural course. [This revenue] is more indispensable when the military establishment necessary for maintaining these colonies requires large revenues to support it, and when their vast increase in territory and population makes the proper regulation of their trade of immediate necessity. What is this Order trying to address? How do you know this? What has led to the colonists’ “vast increase in territory” that the Commissioners refer to? Based on this reading, how do the Commissioners view the colonists? Do you think their impression of the colonists will improve or harm the relationship between the British and the colonists following the French and Indian War?
natural course. [This revenue] is more indispensable when the military establishment necessary for maintaining these colonies requires large revenues to support it, and when their vast increase in territory and population makes the proper regulation of their trade of immediate necessity. What is this Order trying to address? How do you know this? What has led to the colonists’ “vast increase in territory” that the Commissioners refer to? Based on this reading, how do the Commissioners view the colonists? Do you think their impression of the colonists will improve or harm the relationship between the British and the colonists following the French and Indian War?
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