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Show 366 AC'rs RELATING Pm HT. Sect. IV. TO THE COLONIE'S. 367' to the confequences of this manoeuvre; Of this nature were the diflurbances, of had been allured by the profpec‘t ofa copious fale, and againft the opinion of a great many of its members, fliipped for the colonies large quantities of the obnoxious drug. The firfi cargo that came to Bolton which the papers communicated by his found the inhabitants determined at all the landing or lading any goods at the events not to fuffer it to be landed. town, or within the harbour of Boll-on "it". The refolution was communicated to the con- iignees. majefiy contained the hiftory. In confeqncnce of thefc advices, and the melTage that accompanied them, four feveral acts were paf‘t. One to (liicOiitirltre, for a certain time, A fecond, for the impartial adminifira- A committee ofinhabitants af- tion ofjullice, in the cafes of performs quef- fociated to fee to the obfervance of it: and tioned for any afi‘s done by them in the the necefiity of returning without landing any part of the cargo was fignified to' the perlons who had the charge of it, in the firongef'c terms. The alacrity of thofe to whom this fingular mandate was ad- drefl‘ed, net correfponding with the im- execution of the law, or for the fuppref- patience of thofe who illized it, the nego- And ciation was terminated by a company of perlbns in dilguile; who after making them elves matters of the veii‘bls on board of which the commodity had hecn flowed, emptied the lading into the {car Of {ion of riots and tumults in the province of Mall‘achufct's Bay 1. A third J{or the better providing fnitable quarters for the officers and foldiers in. North America 1. " 14;» Geo. iii. :7. 19, f14. Geo. IN. C. 39. 7; x4. Geo. III. c. Silo-A5 this ail only provides that the troops {hall bequartercd there, where ihrir pretence may he required; as the Americans, :n honouring: it with a place among their lift of gruevances, |