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for the Tea, least, if we paid it, they would be encouraged to go on time after time, to lay duties upon a great many other things, which we are accustomed to purchase; in order that they may at last get from us, that great Sum of Money which they want, and which perhaps is all we have. [illegible word] which means, as your Brothers the White People will be obliged to give more money than usual, for those blankets, strouds, checks, linens, guns, power, paint & Rum with which you are supplied; so if money is thus taken out of our pockets without our consent, & against our agreement, it is plain and certain that you and your People