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The Currency Act 1764 (4 Geo. 3. c. 34) extended the 1751 Act to all of the British colonies of North America. Unlike the earlier Act, this statute did not prohibit ...
The currency of the American colonies, 1700–1764: a study in colonial finance and imperial relations. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 0-405-07257-0. Ernst, Joseph Albert. Money and politics in America, 1755–1775: a study in the Currency act of 1764 and the political economy of revolution. Chapel ...
5 April – Parliament passes the Sugar Act. [3] 19 April – the Currency Act passed which prohibits the American colonies from issuing paper currency of any form. [2] 23 April – Mozart family grand tour: 8-year-old W. A. Mozart settles in London for a year [4] where he composes his Symphony No. 1.
An Act for altering and amending an Act, made in the Sixteenth Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend the Laws touching the Election of Members to serve for the Commons in Parliament for that Part of Great Britain called Scotland; and to restrain the Partiality, and regulate the Conduct of Returning Officers ...
In 1764, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, Parliament passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The Sugar Act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies. [21] The same year, the Currency Act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency. [22]
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 Province of New York was their headquarters, because the assembly had passed an Act to provide for the quartering of British regulars, but it expired on January 2, 1764, [2] The result was the Quartering Act 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested. No standing army had been kept in the colonies before the French and Indian War ...
A plaque in Fort Wolcott on Goat Island commemorating the attack on St John. HMS St John was a 8-gun schooner of the British Royal Navy best known for her involvement in the American Revolution, when she was attacked by colonists in Newport, Rhode Island intent on protecting their involvement in smuggling.