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(Townshend Acts)

An Act to Enable His Majesty to Put the Customs and Other Duties in the British Dominions in America and the Execution of the Laws Relating to Trade There — An Act for Granting Certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this Kingdom of coffee and cocoa nuts of the produce of the said colonies or plantations — An Act for Taking Off the Inland Duty of One Shilling Per Pound Weight upon all Black and Singlo teas consumed in Great Britain and for granting a drawback upon the exportation of teas to Ireland and British Dominions in America — An Act for refraining and prohibiting the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives, of the Province of New York, until Provision shall have been made for furnishing the King’s Troops with all the Necessaries required by Law — An Act for further continuing … An Act to amend and render more effectual, in His Majesty’s Dominions in America, an Act Passed in this present Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion — An Act to continue several Laws therein mentioned, relating to the clandestine Running of uncustomed Goods. London: Printed by Mark Baskett; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1767

6 Acts, folio (289 x 187 mm). Disbound. Housed together in a red cloth chemise and quarter red morocco slipcase.

The Townshend Acts, or Townshend Duties, refer to a series of British acts of Parliament relating to the British colonies in America. They are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program. They were a series of measures, passed in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.

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ESTC N56983, N56988, N56999, N57002, N56998, N56977; Revolutionary Hundred 8