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Page 16 - America, and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations; and that it may be proper to repeal an Act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbour of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Page 56 - EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774. Containing the Bill of Rights...
Page 23 - I, — • , do acknowledge the United States of America to be free, independent, and sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain...
Page 42 - A FRIENDLY ADDRESS to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions. In which the necessary consequences of violently opposing the king's troops, and of a general non-importation, are fairly stated.
Page 68 - Year 1796,' in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted. Written by Himself."— EDS.
Page 65 - February, moved for leave to bring in a bill to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British islands in the West Indies...
Page 92 - Orations Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770; When a Number of Citizens were Killed by a Party of British Troops, Quartered Among them, in a Time of Peace.