FIRST TOWNSHEND ACT: COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS ACT (1767). 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, under the Management of Commissioners to be appointed for that Purpose, and to be resident in the said Dominions.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Great Britain. Parliament.

Edité par London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1767

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Folio (12 inches). 7 George III, Chapter 41. General title leaf + pages 563-566. Woodcut Royal coat of arms and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume. In 1767 and 1768, a series of five parliamentary acts were passed by the British government to raise revenue from the American colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges, create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, and punish the colony of New York for failing to comply with the Quartering Act, 1765. The legislation intended to re-establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the American colonies, in keeping with the principles of mercantilism. The unpopular acts became known as the Townshend Acts, after Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer and architect of the legislation. This is the first such Act, known as the Commissioners of Customs Act, 1767, wherein a Board of Customs Commissioners was established as a more effective way to collect taxes in America. The Townshend Acts were met with immediate and widespread resistance in the American colonies. Refusal to comply with the legislation prompted the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which eventually led to the Boston Massacre of 1770.

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• Titre: FIRST TOWNSHEND ACT: COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS ACT (1767). 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, under the Management of Commissioners to be appointed for that Purpose, and to be resident in the said Dominions.
• Éditeur: London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett
• Date de parution: 1767
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • AMERICAN REVOLUTION
  • GREAT BRITAIN Taxation & Duties