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Long title: An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in Africa, for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an act in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, (initituled, An act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty's sugar colonies in America) for applying the produce of such duties, and of the ...
The Jones-Costigan Amendment, also known as the Sugar Act of 1934, passed on May 9, 1934 was an amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act that reclassified sugar crop as basic commodity, subject to the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act enacted the previous year.
The Sugar Duties Act 1846 (c. 63) was a replacement for the Sugar Duties Act 1846 (c. 41). With no cheap labour force and no preferential tariff protection, the plantation-owners in the British West Indies could not compete with Cuba and Brazil , where sugar was still produced using slave labour.
The Molasses Act 1733 (6 Geo. 2. c. 13), also known as the Trade of Sugar Colonies Act 1732, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.
The American Colonies Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the amendment of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal ...
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Slave Trade Act 1807; Slavery in the British and French Caribbean; Strontian process; Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares; Sugar Act; Sugar Blues; Sugar Duties Acts 1846; Sugar Intervention; Confectioners Palace; Sugar plantations in Hawaii; Sugar Riot; Sugar side letter; Sugar-baker; Surinam (English colony)
Sugar is a 1972 musical with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot , which was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan.