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... exports to England to be shipped only in American or English vessels . After the Restoration , a second Navigation Act , in 1660 , ordered that most of the exports from the colonies should be shipped ... export of colonial INTRODUCTION. ...
... exports to England to be shipped only in American or English vessels . After the Restoration , a second Navigation Act , in 1660 , ordered that most of the exports from the colonies should be shipped ... export of colonial INTRODUCTION. ...
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... export of colonial woollens even from one colony to another . In 1706 it recommended , but did not obtain , the resumption of charters still held by some of the colonies . In 1714 a Secretary of State was made chief of the Board of ...
... export of colonial woollens even from one colony to another . In 1706 it recommended , but did not obtain , the resumption of charters still held by some of the colonies . In 1714 a Secretary of State was made chief of the Board of ...
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... export . You did so soon after the last war ; when , upon this principle , you ventured to impose a duty on coals . In all the articles of American contraband trade , who ever heard of the smuggling of red lead and white lead ? You ...
... export . You did so soon after the last war ; when , upon this principle , you ventured to impose a duty on coals . In all the articles of American contraband trade , who ever heard of the smuggling of red lead and white lead ? You ...
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... exported to America is taken off ; the place of collection is only shifted ; instead of the retention of a shilling ... export , these excises are drawn back . But instead of with- holding the drawback , which might have been done with ...
... exported to America is taken off ; the place of collection is only shifted ; instead of the retention of a shilling ... export , these excises are drawn back . But instead of with- holding the drawback , which might have been done with ...
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... export , and then you charged the duty ( which you had before discharged ) payable in the colonies , where it was certain the collection would devour it to the bone , if any revenue were ever suffered to be collected at all . One spirit ...
... export , and then you charged the duty ( which you had before discharged ) payable in the colonies , where it was certain the collection would devour it to the bone , if any revenue were ever suffered to be collected at all . One spirit ...
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