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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 Molasses Act 1733 imposed a fee of six pence per gallon on foreign molasses. [5] This act was meant to force the colonies into buying molasses from the British or stop producing rum in North America. Many, however, say that the Molasses Act was put in place to destroy New England’s rum industry.
An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act, passed in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for repairing and widening the Roads leading from the Town of Kington, in the County of Hereford, through the Welch Hall Lane, as far as the same County extends; and the several Roads leading from Kington aforesaid to ...
[2] Lillian Penson identified three distinct interest groups in London, who decided to work together: agents from the West Indian colonies, merchants who traded with the colonies and plantation owners who lived in London. [1] This group supported the Molasses Act 1733, which sought to tax molasses that was shipped to New England from the ...
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 to continue and amend an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act to continue the Prohibition of the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Starch; and also of the Extraction of Low Wines and Spirits from, Wheat and Wheat Flour, for a further Time; and also, to prohibit the Exportation of Malt ...
Colonial reactions to these policies were mixed. The Molasses Act 1733 placed a duty of six pence per gallon upon foreign molasses imported into the colonies. This act was particularly egregious to the New England colonists, who protested it as taxation without representation. The act increased the smuggling of foreign molasses, and the British ...
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