The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 387
... revenues they were asked to vote . This is the key to the struggle to obtain a permanent and adequate revenue and fixed salaries for governors which was fought out in long and bitter controversies during the first part of the eighteenth ...
... revenues they were asked to vote . This is the key to the struggle to obtain a permanent and adequate revenue and fixed salaries for governors which was fought out in long and bitter controversies during the first part of the eighteenth ...
Page 644
... revenue , Grenville could not fail to be impressed by the enormous extent to which the Acts of Trade were being evaded in America . It has been computed that nine - tenths of the tea , wine , fruit , sugar and molasses consumed in the ...
... revenue , Grenville could not fail to be impressed by the enormous extent to which the Acts of Trade were being evaded in America . It has been computed that nine - tenths of the tea , wine , fruit , sugar and molasses consumed in the ...
Page 669
... revenue it was ridiculous . Had revenue been aimed at , the substitution of the old tax of 12d . on tea when imported into England would , according to both Hutchinson and Franklin , have raised the sum required and provoked no ...
... revenue it was ridiculous . Had revenue been aimed at , the substitution of the old tax of 12d . on tea when imported into England would , according to both Hutchinson and Franklin , have raised the sum required and provoked no ...
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