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SOURCES EARLY MICHIGAN HISTORY
"Did not the intendant regulate the price of all grain by his own will and pleasure?"
Ans.: "I believe it was indispensably necessary the Governor should sign the order with him. "
" How were taxes levied under the French government?"
Ans.: "By the king's edict of old France. " ¦
Such is a portion of the information elicited on that important occasion. Burke was very strenuous for the boundary line and the minister was rather opposed to it. "If, " says Burke, "the noble lord (North) gives me this boundary, he takes off the northern part of the objection. "
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