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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 The Sugar Act 1764 was later repealed by the Revenue Act 1766, and a penny-per-gallon tax was placed on British and foreign molasses imports.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 Sugar Act 1764 established a so-called 'super' Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, presided over by a Crown-appointed judge, the first of which was British jurist and the later Governor of Barbados Dr. William Spry. The court was to have jurisdiction over all of America, with the legislation empowering customs officials to take ...
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 ...
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.
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]
The Revenue Act can refer to a number of tax ... Revenue Act 1764, popularly known as the Sugar Act; Revenue Act 1766; Revenue Act 1767 (7 Geo. 3. c. 46), one of ...
The American Colonies Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the amendment of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal ...