“THE British Colonists have in divers
instances been restrained in their attempts to erect manufactories,
and forbidden to work up their own materials. Hats by a particular
act are not to be exported from colony to colony, under enormous
penalty of f 500 Sterling.?”
“IN the reign of King William III, an
act passed which forbids wool and woolen, under any pretense, to be
water born in the colonies, or in any way carried from colony to
colony...but who will believe that in the same glorious reign, the
following very extraordinary clause is to be found in an act of
Parliament now in force, viz, 'That if any of the Governors in those
plantations, or any other person or persons in authority there, shall
refuse to yield obedience to this act such refusal is hereby declared
to be a forfeiture of all and every the charters granted for the
government and prosperity of such colony.'”
“THE second Charles, far from aiding
or even protecting the colonists against their enemies, found means
to restrain them in their trade and commerce. His
parliament...obliged all the British Colonies to carry the chief of
their produce, all indeed of any great value, to Britain. Soon after
this, the colonies were prohibited from importing any commodities or
manufactures of Europe, but from England...The enumerated
commodities, which at this day can be exported from the Colonies only
to Great Britain, are sugar, molasses, tobacco, ginger, cotton-wool,
indigo, fustick, and all other dying wood, tar, pitch, turpentine,
hemp, masts, yards, bowsprits, copper ore, beaver skins, and other
furs, rice...”
Excerpts from the “Boston Gazette and
Country Journal” of December 9th and 16th of
the year 1765
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