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146 Tracts Concerning North Carolina
everything in sight, McCulloh was indeed and in truth a terri-torial
imperialist. But given the increase of territory, there re-mained
the problem of imperial relations. It was his opinion that
the whole system of administration should be reorganized. The
Indian trade should be regulated, and to finance an Indian establish-ment
in the colonies a "stamp duty on vellum and paper" should
be imposed. The colonial currency must be regulated and made
uniform. Improved channels of official communication between the
colonies and England were necessary, and procedure in financial
and judicial matters needed reform. A better illustration of the
ideals of the new British imperialism that was soon to dominate
colonial policy can hardly be found.
And this memorial was not the end of McCulloh's activity. In
July 1763, he addressed a letter to Henry Jenkinson, Secretary
of the Treasury in the Grenville Cabinet, in which he gave an)
account of the taxes collected in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia, noted that a stamp duty at the rates of six, twelve, and
eighteen pence per sheet would raise £60,000, and enclosed two
bills—one for stamp duties, and one for exchequer bills of credit.
This communication was fruitful, for in the following October a
comparative statement of stamp duties, including those recommended
by McCulloh, those in force in England, and those proposed by
the Treasury, was submitted to Grenville, and two days later
(October 12) there was a conference between McCulloh and Gren-ville.
Of all this the outcome was the adoption of the Stamp Act
as a part of Grenville's program for colonial administration. There-after
McCulloh is lost sight of; the date of his death is unknown,
but he is referred to as living by his son, Henry Eustace McCulloh,
as late as 1768.
The Miscellaneous Representations was discovered by the late
William A. Shaw, editor of the Calendar of Treasury Books and
Papers, and was published in a small edition some years ago by
George Harding, noted English bookseller and bibliophile. It is
now reprinted with the permission of Mr. Harding. All the known
facts concerning McCulloh may be gathered from Mr. Shaw's ex-cellent
introduction, the Colonial Records of North Carolina, Mr.
Bond's Quit Rents in the American Colonies, Gipson's Jared Inger-soil,
(pp. 116-117), and Smith's Grenville Papers (Vol. II, p. 373).
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| Full Text | 146 Tracts Concerning North Carolina everything in sight, McCulloh was indeed and in truth a terri-torial imperialist. But given the increase of territory, there re-mained the problem of imperial relations. It was his opinion that the whole system of administration should be reorganized. The Indian trade should be regulated, and to finance an Indian establish-ment in the colonies a "stamp duty on vellum and paper" should be imposed. The colonial currency must be regulated and made uniform. Improved channels of official communication between the colonies and England were necessary, and procedure in financial and judicial matters needed reform. A better illustration of the ideals of the new British imperialism that was soon to dominate colonial policy can hardly be found. And this memorial was not the end of McCulloh's activity. In July 1763, he addressed a letter to Henry Jenkinson, Secretary of the Treasury in the Grenville Cabinet, in which he gave an) account of the taxes collected in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, noted that a stamp duty at the rates of six, twelve, and eighteen pence per sheet would raise £60,000, and enclosed two bills—one for stamp duties, and one for exchequer bills of credit. This communication was fruitful, for in the following October a comparative statement of stamp duties, including those recommended by McCulloh, those in force in England, and those proposed by the Treasury, was submitted to Grenville, and two days later (October 12) there was a conference between McCulloh and Gren-ville. Of all this the outcome was the adoption of the Stamp Act as a part of Grenville's program for colonial administration. There-after McCulloh is lost sight of; the date of his death is unknown, but he is referred to as living by his son, Henry Eustace McCulloh, as late as 1768. The Miscellaneous Representations was discovered by the late William A. Shaw, editor of the Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, and was published in a small edition some years ago by George Harding, noted English bookseller and bibliophile. It is now reprinted with the permission of Mr. Harding. All the known facts concerning McCulloh may be gathered from Mr. Shaw's ex-cellent introduction, the Colonial Records of North Carolina, Mr. Bond's Quit Rents in the American Colonies, Gipson's Jared Inger-soil, (pp. 116-117), and Smith's Grenville Papers (Vol. II, p. 373). |
