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French and British fighting over Ohio river valley -
An act...for providing quarters for the army, and carriages on marches and other necessary occasions, and inflicting penalties on offenders against the same act...but the samy may not be sufficient for the forces that may be employed in his Majesty’s dominions in America: and whereas, during the continuance of the said act, there may be occasion for marching and quartering of regiments and companies of his Majesty’s forces in several parts of his Majesty’s dominions in America. -
And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the monies...shall arise by the several rates and duties herein before granted; and also by the duties which...shall be raised upon sugars and paneles. -
An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting and securing the same… -
An act...for providing quarters for the army, and carriages on marches and other necessary occasions, and inflicting penalties on offenders against the same act...but the samy may not be sufficient for the forces that may be employed in his Majesty’s dominions in America: and whereas, during the continuance of the said act, there may be occasion for marching and quartering of regiments and companies of his Majesty’s forces in several parts of his Majesty’s dominions in America. -
We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, have therefore resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the several rates and duties herein after mentioned… For every pound weight avoirdupois (1 pound) of tea, three pence… For every ream of paper, usually called or known by the name of Atlas Fine, twelve shillings… -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred mob, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry -
This British act required that colonists were only allowed to purchase tea from the British-owned East India Trading Company which directly impacted the colonial merchants. Text: An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportations of tea to any of his Majesty’s colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company’s sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India -
Administration of Justice Act (One of Intolerable Acts) If any appeal shall be sued or preferred against any person, for murder, or other capital offence, in the province of the Massachusetts Bay...and if it shall also appear, to the satisfaction of the said governor, or lieutenant-governor respectively, that an indifferent trial cannot be had within the said province, in that case, it shall and may be lawful for the governor, or lieutenant-governor, to direct, with the advice and -
WHEREAS doubts have been entertained, whether troops can be quartered otherwise than in barracks, in case barracks have been provided sufficient for the quartering of all officers and soldiers within any town, township, city, district, or place, within his Majesty’s dominions in North America: And whereas it may frequently happen, from the situation of such barracks, that, if troops should be quartered therein, they would not be stationed where their presence may be necessary and