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The Massachusetts Circular Letter was a statement written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr., and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (as constituted in the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, not the current constitution) in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts.
A circular letter or a circular may refer to: Circulaire, text broadly disseminated for the members of a service, of an enterprise, or of an administration; Circular Letter (Interlingua), an early Interlingua publication; Circular letter or encyclical, a letter written by a bishop and addressed to his clergy; Government circular
Although the term "encyclical" originally simply meant a circulating letter, it acquired a more specific meaning within the context of the Catholic Church. In 1740, Pope Benedict XIV wrote a letter titled Ubi primum, which is generally regarded as the first encyclical. The term is now used almost exclusively for a kind of letter sent out by the ...
If Paul was the author of the letter, then it was probably written from Rome during Paul's first imprisonment, [19] and probably soon after his arrival there in the year 62, four years after he had parted with the Ephesian elders at Miletus. However, scholars who dispute Paul's authorship date the letter to between 70 and 80 AD. [7]
Boston's Samuel Adams suggested that colonial objections "should harmonize with each other". This 11 February 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter invited every colony to cooperate in resistance. The British ordered the Massachusetts Assembly to rescind the letter. It refused, and its royal governor dissolved it.
A circular letter of credit was a letter of credit issued by a bank or related financial institution to a private person, usually an individual of means, which enabled that person to draw funds from correspondent banks while traveling. This was considered safer than carrying large sums of cash.
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Massachusetts Circular Letter, a 1768 statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives; OMB Circular A-123, a U.S. Office of Management and Budget circular that defines the management responsibilities for internal financial controls in Federal agencies