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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 ...
The Mutiny Acts 1765 and 1774 are better known as Quartering Acts because of the changes which added quartering requirements for British troops in the American Colonies, beyond what the Army had provided.
It forbade the New York Assembly and the governor of New York from passing any new bills until they complied with the Quartering Act 1765. [28] That act required New York to provide housing, food and supplies for the British troops stationed there to defend the colony.
The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 (5 Geo. 3.c. 12), was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp.
Mutiny, America Act 1765 or the Quartering Act 1765 (repealed) 5 Geo. 3. c. 33. 15 May 1765.
In 1765, the Parliament of Great Britain enacted the first of the Quartering Acts, [6] requiring the Thirteen Colonies to provide food to British Army troops serving in the colonies, and ordering that if their local barracks provided insufficient space, that colonial authorities lodge troops in public buildings such as alehouses, inns, and livery stables.
22 March – Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied on the American colonies. [4] 24 March – Parliament passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops. [5]
1765 was a common year ... March 24 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, requiring private households in the thirteen American colonies to house British ...