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An Act for establishing and rendering effectual certain Articles of Agreement enabling the several Fee-Farm and Customary Tenants within the Honour, Manor, and Lordship, of Hornby, and Manor of Tatham, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, to purchase the Timber Trees and Underwoods growing upon their respective Tenements; and for vesting the ...
On 16 December 1773, a group of Patriot colonists associated with the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of tea in Boston, Massachusetts, an act that came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. The colonists partook in this action because Parliament had passed the Tea Act , which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in ...
4 June – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from the Nore. 21 June – Parliament passes the Regulating Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 63) creating the office of governor general, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory under British East India Company rule in India. [5]
Royal statutes, etc. issued before the development of Parliament. 1225–1267; 1275–1307; 1308–1325; Temp. incert. 1327–1376; 1377–1397; 1399–1411
Regulating Act 1773; T. Tea Act; Turnpike Roads Act 1773 This page was last edited on 13 February 2020, at 23:57 (UTC). ...
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 ...
An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act of the Ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, [z] for repairing the Road from the Turnpike Gate in the Township of Greenfield, to the North Limits of the Township of Mostyn, and from Mostyn to Henllan, and from Llanerch y Mor to Pen y Waen, in the Counties of Flint and Denbigh; and ...
The Stamp Act proved to be wildly unpopular in the colonies, contributing to its repeal the following year, along with the failure to raise substantial revenue. Implicit in the Stamp Act dispute was an issue more fundamental than taxation and representation: the question of the extent of Parliament's authority in the colonies. [8]