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P S March 9

There is now strong application making for an Act of Parliament, for a bounty on various kinds of timber, plank & boards imported, to which the Minister seems to lend a favourable Ear.

Tis said that it is intended to give the business of Collecting & paying the Stamp Duty to Americans in the respective Colonies.

I am not without some hopes of having the pleasure of seeing you at Hartford before the rising of the Assembly in the May Sessions, having taken my passage in the Boscowen Capt Jacobson bound to Boston & who expects to sail the beginning of April.

J. I.

Gov^r. Fitch

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Letter to Godfrey Malbone.

London April 7^th. 1765

S^r

 .  .  .  .  . The Parliament have been & still are very busy with America, Laying Duties and granting, at least talking about granting bounties. The Spanish trade you may depend is opened, as much as y^e Same can be without Speaking loud. They say how they intend not to hurt us upon the whole of their regulations, but to do us good. I wish we may be of that mind. Many things have been said about the Molasses Duty, but after all they dont intend to repeal or alter the present Act without at least trying it, tho I believe they think they must by & by. I hope to be on your Side the water in two or three Months.

I know of nothing new here. The same kind of folks go to Court & y^e Same Sort patrole the Strand a nights that used to do when you was here. With Comp^s to M^rs Mallbone & all friends I Remain

Y^r Most Obed^t.                    
Humb^l Serv^t.          
J: Ingersoll

G. Mallbone Esq^r.^[1]

1. This letter, to Godfrey Malbone of Newport, is at present in the New York Public Library; the opening sentences relate to private business of Mr. Malbone.