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NEW PARLIAMENT; FIRST ACT AGAINST THE
PROVINCE OF NEW YORK; BILLETING SOLDIERS ON THE
COLONIES. 329-336
Raising a revenue by Act of Parliament in the Colonies 330
Three Bills brought in, and passed by Parliament, to raise a revenue in
the Colonies 331

Vice-Admiralty Courts and the Navy employed as custom-house
officers 334
The effect of these Acts and measures in the Colonies 335
CHAPTER XIV.
EVENTS OF 1768.--PROTESTS AND LOYAL PETITIONS OF THE
COLONISTS AGAINST THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY ACTS
FOR RAISING REVENUES IN THE COLONIES. 337-352
Petition to the King 337
Noble circular of the Massachusetts Legislative Assembly to the
Assemblies of the other Colonies, on the unconstitutional and
oppressive Acts of the British Parliament 338
This circular displeasing to the British Ministry, and strongly
condemned by it in a circular from the Earl of Hillsborough 341
Admirable and patriotic reply of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the
Massachusetts circular 342
Similar replies from the Legislative Assemblies of other Colonies 343
Excellent answer of the General Assembly of Maryland to a message of
the Governor on the same subject 344
The effects of Lord Hillsborough's circular letter to the Colonial
Governors 345
Experiment of the newly asserted power of Parliament to tax and rule
the Colonies, commended at Boston and in Massachusetts 348
Three causes for popular irritation; seizures; riotous resistance; seven
hundred soldiers landed, and required to be provided for, which was
refused; the Provincial Assembly and its proceedings; ships of war in
Boston Harbour 348

CHAPTER XV.
EVENTS OF 1769.--UNJUST IMPUTATIONS OF PARLIAMENT
ON THE LOYALTY OF THE COLONISTS, AND
MISREPRESENTATIONS OF THEIR JUST AND LOYAL
PETITIONS. 353-363
Manly response to these imputations on the part of the Colonists, and
their assertion of British constitutional rights, led by the General
Assembly of Virginia 355
Dissolution of Colonial Assemblies; agreements for the
non-importation of British manufactured goods entered into by the
Colonists 356
The General Assembly of Massachusetts refuse to legislate under the
guns of a land and naval force; Governor Barnard's reply 357
Proceedings of the Governor and House of Assembly on quartering
troops in Boston 358
Governor Barnard's recall and character (in a note) 359
Origin of the non-importation agreement in New York; sanctioned by
persons in the highest stations; union of the Colonies planned 360
Sons of Governors Barnard and Hutchinson refuse to enter into the
non-importation agreement 360
They were at length compelled to yield; humiliating position of the
soldiers in Boston; successful resistance of the importation of British
goods 360
Joy in the Colonies by a despatch from Lord Hillsborough promising to
repeal the obnoxious Revenue Acts, and to impose no more taxes on
the Colonies 361
The duty of threepence per pound on tea excepted 363

CHAPTER XVI.
EVENTS OF 1770.--AN EVENTFUL EPOCH.--EXPECTATIONS
OF RECONCILIATION AND UNION DISAPPOINTED. 364-373
Collisions between the soldiers and inhabitants in Boston 365
The soldiers insulted and abused 365
The Boston Massacre; the soldiers acquitted by a Boston jury 365
The payment of official salaries independent of the Colonies another
cause of dissatisfaction 366
What had been claimed by the old American Colonies contended for in
Canada, and granted, to the satisfaction and progress of the country 367
Lord North's Bill to repeal the Colonial Revenue Acts, except the duty
on tea, which he refused to repeal until "America should be prostrate at
his feet" 368
Governor Pownall's speech and amendment to repeal the duty on tea,
rejected by a majority of 242 to 204 369
Associations in the Colonies against the use of tea imported from
England 370
The tea duty Act of Parliament virtually defeated in America 370
The controversy revived and intensified by the agreement between
Lord North and the East India Company, to remit the duty of a shilling
in the pound on all teas exported by it to America, where the
threepence duty on the pound was to be collected 371
Combined opposition of English and American merchants, and the
Colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia, against this scheme 372
CHAPTER XVII.

EVENTS OF 1771, 1772, 1773.--THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S
TEA REJECTED IN EVERY PROVINCE OF AMERICA; NOT A
CHEST OF ITS TEA SOLD; RESOLUTIONS OF A PUBLIC
MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA ON THE SUBJECT, THE MODEL
FOR THOSE OF OTHER COLONIES. 374-387
The Governor, Hutchinson, of Massachusetts, and his sons (the
consignees), alone determined to land the tea at Boston 376
The causes and affair of throwing the East India Company's tea into the
Boston Harbour, as stated on both sides 377
The causes and the disastrous effect of the arrangement between the
British Ministry and the East India Company 381
The King the author of the scheme; His Majesty's condemnation of the
petitions and remonstrances from the Colonies (in a note) 382
Governor Hutchinson's proceedings, and his account of the transactions
at Boston 383