Draft of a bill for declaring the intentions of the Parliament of Great-Britain : concerning the exercise of the right of imposing taxes within His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North-America.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Great Britain. Parliament.

Tryon, William, 1729-1788, author.

Contributor:

Tryon, William, 1729-1788.

Rivington, James, 1724-1802, printer.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Bills. 1778-02-19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Commissioners to Treat, Consult, and Agree upon the Means of Quieting the Disorders Now Subsisting in Certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces in North-America.

Great Britain.

Taxation--United States.

Taxation.

United States.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

Colonies.

America.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

History.

Physical Description:

4 pages ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Printed by James Rivington], [1778]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Caption title.

Followed on p. 2-3 by: Draft of a bill to enable His Majesty to appoint commissioners, with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations and provinces of North-America.

Signed and dated on p. 4: I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of enclosures sent me in a dispatch by the Right Hon. Lord George Germain .. Given under my hand at New-York, this 15th day of April, 1778. William Tryon.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 15827

English Short Title Catalog, W18452.

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