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	Stamp Act 1765 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stamp taxes had been in use in Britain for a number of years, and were viewed as an equitable source of income.
		When Massachusetts asked for a general meeting, nine colonies sent representatives to a Stamp Act Congress to be held at Federal Hall in New York in October of 1765.
		The Stamp Act Congress can be seen in hindsight as an opening move in the American Revolution.
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	Stamp Act 1765 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1640
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1699
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	Stamp Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stamp Acts are in force in many countries including Australia, Bhutan, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
		Stamp Duty was first introduced in England in 1694 following the Dutch model as An act for granting to Their Majesties several duties on Vellum, Parchment and Paper for 4 years, towards carrying on the war against France.
		A public display of Stamp Office artefacts and records was held at the Courtauld Institute in 1994 to commemorate the Three hundredth anniversary of the introduction of UK Stamp Duty.
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	Stamp Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Stamp Act of 1765 - 1766 was an act passed by the British Parliament requiring all legal documents licenses commercial newspapers pamphlets and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.
		Stamp taxes had been in use in England a number of years and were viewed an equitable source of income.
		Stamps were generally ignored and were often Protest and discussion over these acts gave to open violence in a number of In Boston an effigy of the stamp agent Oliver was hanged and then burned.
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	Stamp Act - Encyclopedia.com
		Stamp Act 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville.
		The revenue obtained from the sale of stamps was designated for colonial defense; while the means of raising revenue was novel, the application of such revenue to defense continued existing British policy.
		Merchants boycotted English goods; stamp distributors were forced to resign and stamps were destroyed; and the Massachusetts legislature, at the suggestion of James Otis, issued a call for a general congress to find means of resisting the law.
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	Stamp act - Stamp Act - 1765
		The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; The first Stamp Act Congress was held in New York in October 1765.
		It was to be known as the Stamp Act.
		One result of the protests was the meeting of the Stamp Act Congress in New York, to which many of the colonies sent representatives.
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	Wikinfo \| Stamp Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Stamp Act of 1765-1766 was an act of the British Parliament to tax activities in their American colonies.
		The Act was passed by the parliament on March 22, 1765 and was to be effective November 1.
		The act met with great resistance in the colonies, was never effectively enforced, and was finally repealed on March 18, 1766.
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	The Stamp Act, March 22, 1765
		The act extended to the colonies the system of stamp duties then employed in Great Britain and was intended to raise money to defray the cost of maintaining the military defenses of the colonies.
		Opposition culminated in the convening of the Stamp Act Congress to consider organized means of protesting against the tax.
		Provided always, that this act shall not extend to charge any bills of exchange, accompts, bills of parcels, bills of fees, or any bills or notes not sealed for payment of money at sight, or upon demand, or at the end of certain days of payment...
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	Quartering Act (1765)
		During the Stamp Act unrest of 1765 and early 1766, increasing numbers of soldiers were stationed in or near American cities.
		Resistance to the Quartering Act was strongest in New York.
		Stamp Act NEXT >The Declaratory Act The Quartering Act of 1765 March 24, 1765 AN ACT to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for...
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	Archives - Stamp Act \| Houses of Parliament
		An American Revenue Stamp. A rare example of a stamp issued for use under the 1765 Stamp Act, to the value of two shillings and six pence. By courtesy of ‘ushistory.org’.
		By the latter part of the eighteenth-century the American colonies had begun to develop their own political identities, and many colonists had absorbed radical political ideas. Whilst they were familiar with the exacting of customs duties by the British Parliament they were unaccustomed to it introducing any form of internal taxation.
		Today, it is clear that after the passing of the Stamp Act in March 1765, relations between Britain and her American colonies could never be the same again.
	www.parliament.uk /parliamentary_publications_and_archives/parliamentary_archives/archives___stamp_act.cfm (223 words)

	Stamp Act
		that shall be marked or stamped for any towel duty than the duty by this act made payable in respect thereof; every such person so offending shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of ten pounds.
		enter, register, or inroll, any matter or thing hereby charged with a stamp duty, unless the same shall appear to be duly stamped; in every such case such register, publick officer, clerk, or other person, shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
		stamped or marked as by this act is directed; every such person, shall for every such offense, forfeit the sum of forty shillings.
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	The Stamp Act of 1765
		Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to charge with any of the said duties, any vellum, parchment, or paper, on which shall only be engrossed, written, or printed, any certificate that shall be necessary to in title any person to receive a bounty granted by act of parliament.
		Provided always, That where any almanac shall contain more than one sheet of paper, it shall be sufficient to stamp only one of the sheets or pieces of paper upon which such almanac shall be printed, and to pay the duty accordingly.
		And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That licences for selling or uttering by retail spirituous liquors or wine within the said colonies and plantations, shall be in force and serve for no longer than one year from the date of each licence respectively.
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	Stamp Act Of 1765 - Online Tips Stamp Act Of 1765
		STAMP ACT 1765 Those deals are best for people from United States A year after they were folded and Company of the Black Heritage series stamps, differ in new stamp is made, by means of Philadelphia...
		The 1765 Stamp Act,which was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep the peace between settlers and the Native American populations in the wilderness, was loathed throughout the...
		Advertisement Stamp Act 1765 From Academic Kids The Stamp Act 1765 was the fourth Stamp Act to be passed by the British Parliament and required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts...
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	Stamp Act - 1765 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, letters of mart, or commission for private ships of war, within the said colonies and plantations, a stamp duty of twenty shillings.
		Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to charge with any of the said duties, any vellum, parchment, or paper, on which shall only be ingrossed, written, or printed, any certificate that shall be necessary to intitle any person to receive a bounty granted by act of parliament.
		And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That licences for selling or uttering by retail spirituous liquors or wine within any of the said colonies and plantations, shall be in force and serve for no longer than one year from the date of each licence respectively.
	ahp.gatech.edu /stamp_act_bp_1765.html (1190 words)

	Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions Collection, American Philosophical Society
		The Stamp Act became the first direct tax on the American colonies in 1765, levying a fee on all official documents, and thus all legal transactions.
		On June 6, 1765, they agreed to the motion of James Otis to organize an intercolonial meeting to resist the Stamp Act, and two days later, issued a circular letter to the assemblies of the other colonies.
		The first volume is concerned exclusively with agitation over the Stamp Act of 1765 and its repeal, while the second volume relates more specifically to the Non-Importation agreements of the 1760s, the Townshend Duties, and the Tea Act of 1773.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/p/panonimport.htm (2001 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Stamp Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the Stamp Act itself was not a harsh measure, colonists feared the standard this new type of legislation would set.
		On October 31, 1765 the publishers announced the suspension of the Gazette in opposition to the provisions of the Stamp Act which required that it be printed on imported, stamped paper.
		No stamp commissioner or tax collector was actually tarred and feathered but by November 1, 1765, the day the Stamp Act tax went into effect, there were no stamp commissioners left in the colonies to collect it.
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		The Stamp Act was also intended to raise money by levying a tax on a wide variety of paper goods.
		On June 8, 1765, the Massachusetts House of Representatives had sent a circular letter to other colonial legislatures inviting them to attend an October congress in New York City to discuss means of obtaining relief from the act.
		Dulany's pamphlet, the most influential written protest against the Stamp Act, was reprinted as far north as New York and Boston?and also in London, where Parliamentary opponents of the act made use of Dulany's reasoning.
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	stamp act
		The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first direct tax on the colonies levied by Parliament.
		It required that a stamp be affixed to all commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets and almanacs.
		When news of the Act reached America, the colonists’ ‘spirit of freedom’ ignited and opposition was broad-based, bitter and effective.
	www.manhattanrarebooks-history.com /stamp_act.htm (382 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Stamp Act 1765
		The Stamp Act 1765 was the fourth Stamp Act to be passed by the British Parliament and required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.
		Stamp taxes had been in use in Britain for a number of years, and were viewed as an equitable source of income.
		Stamp Act Congress' resolutions, October 19, 1765: text.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765 (1057 words)

	Poli Sci 102 Web : Stamp_Act_of_1765 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		STAMP ACT OF 1765 - English Act creating revenue stamps in the colonies requiring that they be affixed to all printed and legal documents including newspapers, pamphlets, advertisements, notes and bonds, leases, deeds, and licenses.
		Stamp Act of 1765 required stamps for pamphlets
		Stamp Act of 1765 required stamps for deeds
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /x102/PSWeb/Stamp_Act_of_1765.htm (131 words)

	RESOLUTIONS OF THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS - October 19, 1765
		Parliament enacted the Sugar Act in 1764 but merely announced its intentions to enact a stamp act if the colonies did not, within a year, come up with proposals to raise the revenue needed for the costs of administration.
		That act required the use of revenue stamps (ranging in cost from three pence to six pounds) on all legal documents and printed materials such as newspapers and playing cards.
		The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October of 1765.
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	Stamp Act Congress, 1765
		Saturday, Oct. 19th, 1765, A.M. -- The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, etc., as yesterday; and upon mature deliberation, agreed to the following declaration of the rights and grievances of the colonists in America, which were ordered to be inserted.
		That His Majesty's subjects in these colonies owe the same allegiance to the crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain.
		That the duties imposed by several late acts of Parliament, from the peculiar circumstances of these colonies, will be extremely burthensome and grievous, and, from the scarcity of specie, the payment of them absolutely impracticable.
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	The Stamp Act of 1765 - Associated Content
		The Stamp Act of 1765 was imposed by the British government upon the New World colonists in another effort to repay debts that were incurred during the French and Indian War.
		This act placed a tax on any item marked with a stamp, usually consisting of deeds, papers, and various documents that could be stamped.
		The colonists feared that this act was overstepping the bounds of the British government and would threaten the sanctity of the economy of the American colonies.
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	::OurStory - The Revolutionary War in New Jersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The act was intended to generate revenues that would help pay for the cost of maintaining a permanent force of British troops in the American colonies.
		The Stamp Act angered many American colonists who felt it was unfair for this tax to be created on such a commonly used product such as paper.
		Due to the Stamp Act Congress, the refusal of colonist to purchase the stamps and the violent uprisings against British officials in the American colonies, the British decided to quickly end the tax on printed goods.
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	Stamp act of 1765 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	Stamp Act 1765 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It had to do with a government stamp, or seal.This stamp was to be put on different kinds of papers and paper goods, but only after a tax had been paid on them.
		Under the Stamp Act, people would have to pay extra money for each copy of a newspaper or pamphlet.They even had to pay a tax on playing cards.
		The Stamp Act was an important part of history because it was a cause of the Revolutionary War.
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	Stamp Act - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		DCA) has introduced The Peace Stamp Act, which calls for the creation of a stamp, the revenues from which would...
		were affixed with an official stamp indicating additional tax on...
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	The Stamp Act
		On February 6th, 1765 George Grenville rose in Parliament to offer the fifty-five resolutions of his Stamp Bill.
		The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th, and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King.
		The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/stampact.htm (1152 words)

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