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'The Gentleman's Magazine'' for March 1765 reporting on the Stamp Act, one of the earliest pieces of legislation passed by England that precipitated the Revolutionary War. It was the 1765 Stamp Act, along with the Townshend Acts of 1767, that sparked the rallying cry of ''No Taxation Without Representation'', and inflamed tensions between the British and the colonists culminating in the Boston Massacre in 1770. News coverage appears on page 144 under the date of ''Friday [March] 22'' reading, ''Lord Mansfield, as speaker, and the Earls Gower and Marchmont, by virtue of a commission from his majesty, gave the royal assent to the following bills...for laying a stamp duty in the British colonies in America...'' Publication, printed in London by D. Henry, measures 5.125'' x 8.25''. Binding starting to pull away at lower edge, and archival tape to small tear on one page. Overall very good plus condition.
March 1765 Newspaper Reporting on the Stamp Act, One of the First British Tax Laws That Precipitated the Revolutionary War
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