Draft of a bill for declaring the intentions of the Parliament of Great-Britain
Subtitle: concerning the exercise of the right of imposing taxes within His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North-America
Contributors: Pigot, Robert
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43464
Publisher: Printed by John Howe?
Published: 1778
Place of publication: [Newport, R.I.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Commissioners to Treat, Consult, and Agree upon the Means of Quieting the Disorders Now Subsisting in Certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces in North-America; Taxation -- United States; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
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Followed on p. 2-3 by: Draft of a bill to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations and provinces of North-America

Signed and dated on p. 4: I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of enclosures sent me in a dispatch by the Right Hon. Lord George Germain ... Given under my hand at Newport, Rhode-Island, this 22d day of April, 1778. Robert Pigot. Major-general and commander at Rhode-Island

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43464)