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An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this Colony a rate or tax of twelve thousand pounds, lawful money; ten thousand pounds there of in the lawful money bills emitted in March and May, A.D. 1760

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Year:
1764
Contributor:
Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807 (printer)
Ward, Henry, 1732-1797 (inscriber)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > Sources
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB943
Extent:
4 p. : ill. ; 34 x 21 cm.
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Notes:
Page [4] blank; other pages numbered.
At head of title royal arms of Great Britain; at end of text on page 3 tailpiece of kneeling man and seated man holding vase of flowers; line of type ornaments below tailpiece.
Title continues: To be collected, levied, and brought into the General Treasury before or upon the tenth day of March next, for sinking so much of those emissions; and the other two thousand pounds in the same, or any other lawful money bills, or in old tenor, at the rate of twenty-three and one third for one, to be appropriated towards paying the Colony's debts, and defraying the incident charges of government, to be collected and paid into the General Treasury by the first day of December next.
At head of title, below arms: At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America; begun and holden, by adjournment, at Newport, within and for the said Colony, on the second Monday in September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and fourth of the reign of his most sacred Majesty, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth.
At end of text: A true copy, duly examined. Witness.

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Rhode Island, "An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this Colony a rate or tax of twelve thousand pounds, lawful money; ten thousand pounds there of in the lawful money bills emitted in March and May, A.D. 1760" (1764). Brown Olio. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:262899/

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