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    Great Britain

    29.3 cm x 18.1 cm

    This published version of the Revenue Act is comprised of a sequence of eight pages (535-542) bound within a volume, Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay ...
    [Boston : Printed by Richard Draper and Green and Russell, 1767]


    This is a published version of the Revenue Act, one of the four Townshend Acts imposed in 1767 by Parliament for the purpose of deriving more revenue from the colonies. This Act imposed direct revenue duties on imported lead, glass paper, paint, and tea and also punished smugglers through "Writs of assistance."