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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Governor Sir James Wright of Georgia reports assenting to bills on March 8, 1781, including a 2.5% export duty as contribution to the British Empire and measures against rebels, highlighting provincial loyalty amid distress.
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Extract of a letter from Sir James Wright, Bart. Governor of the province of Georgia, to the Right Hon. Lord George Germaine, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, dated at Savannah, the 9th of March, 1781.
"On the 8th instant, my Lord, I assented to five bills, and have the satisfaction to acquaint your Lordship, that one of them is entitled, "An Act for granting to his Majesty certain duties upon all goods, wares and merchandize, of the growth or production of this province, which may be exported from hence, as the contribution of Georgia to the general charge of the British Empire." These duties, my Lord, his Majesty's loyal subjects in this province have freely and cheerfully given and granted, and humbly beg that his Majesty will be graciously pleased to condescend to accept of the same, as a small token of their gratitude to his Majesty, and affection to the mother country. A duty of five per cent. was proposed, but the greatly distressed, reduced, and exhausted state of the province, it was thought, would not admit of laying on so large a duty at present; and therefore it is only two and a half per cent. Another is entitled, "An Act for Securing his majesty's government and the peace of this province, and for the more effectual protection of the king's loyal subjects here against the wicked attempts and designs of the rebels and other disaffected persons, and for other purposes herein after mentioned."
May 24. The province of Georgia was the last to join in the American rebellion, and the first to renew their affectionate attachment to the mother country. The duties now laid on their exports, by the assembly of the province, is a proof of their inclinations; but it is to be observed, that they have put their hands in their own pockets, and have freely given a duty of two and a half per cent. though they might have refused it if it had been imposed upon them by the British parliament.
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Savannah, Georgia
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8th Of March, 1781
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assented to five bills, including a 2.5% duty on exports as voluntary contribution to the british empire due to provincial distress, and an act for securing government against rebels.
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Governor Sir James Wright assented to five bills on the 8th instant, one granting duties on exported goods of Georgia's growth or production as contribution to the British Empire, reduced to 2.5% from proposed 5% due to the province's exhausted state; subjects freely granted it as token of loyalty. Another bill secures government and protects loyal subjects against rebels and disaffected persons.