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Act; that, as well as the most important duties of the Revenue Act, had been repealed; the tea-duty was slight and it produced short of nothing, the cost of collection devouring it to the bone; for the Americans refused to buy imported tea, and they were right to do so; having inherited English principles they resisted for the same reason for which

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

_ -- On the report of the Budget resolutions there was, of course, the usual attempt to get rid of the tea-duty.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898

The tea-duty and the obnoxious acts of 1774 were repealed, the principles of colonial independence of

The War of Independence John Fiske 1871

You will observe that I take it for granted you agree with me as to the utter impossibility of ever exercising such a right, and the impolicy as well as bad faith of reserving it, to become, like the tea-duty, a ground for contest and ill-blood; without the possibility of advantage.

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2) Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos 1829

Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea-duty had perished in the general wreck?

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

The act of 1767, which grants this tea-duty, sets forth in its preamble, that it was expedient to raise a revenue in America for the support of the civil government there, as well as for purposes still more extensive.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Does the poor solitary tea-duty support the purposes of this preamble?

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

a pound on tea by evading the Act, and the other class enjoying the luxury of tea as cheap as if no tea-duty Act of Parliament existed, and with the additional relish of rendering such Act abortive.

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842