&c." But from a declaration in the preamble,
that the rates and duties were "in lieu of" se-
veral others granted by the Statute first before
mentioned for raising a revenue and from some
other expressions it appears, that these duties
were intended for that purpose.
IN the next year (1767,) an Act was made
"to enable his Majesty to put the
customs and
other duties in
America under the management
of Commissioners &c." and the King there-
upon erected the present expensive Board of
Commissioners, for the express purpose of car-
rying into execution the several Acts relating to
the revenue and trade in America.
AFTER the repeal of the Stamp-Act, having
again resigned ourselves to our antient
unsuspi-
cious affections for the parent state, and anxi-
ous to avoid any controversy with her, in hopes
of a favourable alteration in sentiments and
mea-
sures towards us, we did not press our objec-
tions against the above mentioned Statutes made
subsequent to that repeal.
ADMINISTRATION attributing to trifling
causes, a conduct that really proceeded from
generous motives, were encouraged in the same
year (1767) to make a bolder experiment on
the patience of
America.
BY a statute commonly called the Glass, Pa-
per and Tea Act, made fifteen months after the
repeal of the Stamp-Act, the Commons
of
Great-Britain resumed their
former language,