TOWNSHEND REVENUE ACT AMENDMENT (1770). An Act to repeal so much of an Act made in the Seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America; for allowing a Drawback of the Duties of Customs upon the Exportation, from this Kingdom, of Coffee and Cocoa Nuts, of the Produce of the said Colonies or Plantations; for discontinuing the Drawbacks payable on China Earthen Ware exported to America; and for more effectually preventing the clandestine Running of Goods in the said Colonies and Plantations, as relates to the Duties upon Glass, Red Lead, White Lead, Painters Colours, Paper, Paste Boards, Mill Boards and Scale Boards .

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Folio (12 inches). 10 George III, Chapter 17. General title leaf + pages 331-334. Woodcut Royal coat of arms and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. In 1767 and 1768, a series of five parliamentary acts were passed by the British government to raise revenue from the American colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges, create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, and punish the colony of New York for failing to comply with the Quartering Act, 1765. The legislation intended to re-establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the American colonies, in keeping with the principles of mercantilism. The unpopular acts became known as the Townshend Acts, after Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer and architect of the legislation. This Act, known as the Revenue Act Amendment, 1770 repealed most of the Revenue Act, 1767 (the second Townshend Act), but the duty on tea remained in place to demonstrate that Parliament held the right to tax its colonists in accordance with the Declaratory Act, 1765. N° de ref. del artículo 207

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