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e Ohio, lest the valley of the beautiful river should be gained by France. Many proposals, too, were made for laying taxes on North America. The Board of Trade had not ceased to be urgent for a revenue with which to fix settled salaries on the Northern governors, and defray the cost of Indian alliances. Persons of consequence, we are told, had repeatedly, and without concealment, expressed undigested notions of raising revenues out of the colonies. Thomas Penn to James Hamilton, 9 January, 1753. Wm. Bollan to Secretary Willard, 10 July, 1752, and 24 May, 1753. Some proposed to obtain them from the post-office, a modification of the acts of trade, and a general stamp act for America. Political Register, i. 248. The paper, here referred to, mixes error with much that is confirmed from more trustworthy sources. With Pelham's concurrence, the Board of Trade Walpole's Memoirs of George II. Letter of Wm. Bollan, of Charles, the New York Agent of the Proprietary of Pennsylvan