“...whereas it is just and necessary
that a revenue be raised in your Majesty's said dominions in America
for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and
securing...be it enacted...there shall be raised, levied, collected,
and paid unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for and upon all
white or clayed sugars of the produce or manufacture of any colony or
plantation in America, not under the dominion of his Majesty...for
and upon indigo, and coffee of foreign produce or
manufacture...wrought silks, bengals, and stuffs, mixed with silk or
herbs, of the manufacture of Persia, China, or East India, and all
calico painted, dyed, printed, or stained there; and for and upon all
foreign linen cloth called cambric and French lawns which shall be
imported or brought into any colony or plantation in America...And
for the better preventing frauds...every person or persons
loading...shall before the clearing out of the said ship or vessel,
produce and deliver to the collector...and affidavit signed and sworn
to before some justice of the peace in the British colonies or
plantations, either by the grower, maker, or shipper of such goods,
or his or their known agent or factor, expressing in words at length
and not in figures, the quality of the goods so shipped, with the
number and denominations of the packages, and describing the name or
names of the plantation or plantations, and the name of the colony
where the same grew or were produced and manufactured.”
George III,
April 5, 1764
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