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The Sugar Act 1764 or Sugar Act 1763 (4 Geo. 3. c. c. 15), also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act , was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764. [ 1 ]
After the Sugar Act 1764 was instated, exports fell in the coming years, according to records. On the other hand, mainland rum production rose during those years. The Sugar Act 1764 was later repealed by the Revenue Act 1766, and a penny-per-gallon tax was placed on British and foreign molasses imports. This law marked the first large-scale ...
The Revenue Act was passed in conjunction with the Indemnity Act 1767 (7 Geo 3 c 56), [e] [49] which was intended to make the tea of the British East India Company more competitive with smuggled Dutch tea. [50] The Indemnity Act repealed taxes on tea imported to England, allowing it to be re-exported more cheaply to the colonies.
Sugar Act The first step in the new program was the Sugar Act 1764 , which Adams saw as an infringement of longstanding colonial rights. Colonists were not represented in Parliament, he argued, and therefore they could not be taxed by that body; the colonists were represented by the colonial assemblies, and only they could levy taxes upon them ...
The Sugar Act 1764 and the Stamp Act 1765 severely curtailed mercantile trade in the colonies. [21] The Stamp Act prompted Arnold to join the chorus of voices in opposition, and also led to his joining the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization which advocated resistance to those and other restrictive Parliamentary measures. [22]
Looking for new sources of revenue, the British Parliament sought, for the first time, to directly tax the colonies, beginning with the Sugar Act 1764. [23] The earlier Molasses Act 1733, a tax on shipments from the West Indies, had produced hardly any revenue because it was widely bypassed by smuggling, which was seen as a victimless crime ...
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 ...
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