An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides. By the Rev. James Murray, ...T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-Row, London, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, 1780 - United States - 575 pages |
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... duties , was to be applied for defraying the expences of protecting the colonies where it was levied , and that at the fame time that a law was made to restrain the increase of pa- per currency , feveral new laws were preferred to en ...
... duties , was to be applied for defraying the expences of protecting the colonies where it was levied , and that at the fame time that a law was made to restrain the increase of pa- per currency , feveral new laws were preferred to en ...
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... duties in America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend it to the British exchequer tó risk the danger of feas in fending it back again to America . This would have been a piece ...
... duties in America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend it to the British exchequer tó risk the danger of feas in fending it back again to America . This would have been a piece ...
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... duty upon goods exported to America be leffened . It has been computed that the colonies , befides the foreign goods which they purchafed from our merchants , took annually of our produce and manufactures to the amount of three millions ...
... duty upon goods exported to America be leffened . It has been computed that the colonies , befides the foreign goods which they purchafed from our merchants , took annually of our produce and manufactures to the amount of three millions ...
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... duty payable upon the goods exported to A- merica , and the import duties payable on goods we received from foreign countries , in return for what were fent them by the colonies ; and however small all this may appear to fome , it could ...
... duty payable upon the goods exported to A- merica , and the import duties payable on goods we received from foreign countries , in return for what were fent them by the colonies ; and however small all this may appear to fome , it could ...
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... duty upon ftamps in all the American colonies . This law impofed no less than fifty - three different forts of ftamps and other duties upon the co- lonies and plantations in America , fome of them extremely exorbitant and heavy , and ...
... duty upon ftamps in all the American colonies . This law impofed no less than fifty - three different forts of ftamps and other duties upon the co- lonies and plantations in America , fome of them extremely exorbitant and heavy , and ...
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