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Description: Hypertext from the Journals of Congress (ed. 1800) at the Avalon Project.
Avalon Project - Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various presences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies, established a board of commissioners, with unconstitutional powers, and extended the jurisdiction of courts of admiralty, not only for collecting the said duties, but for the trial of causes merely arising within the body of a county:
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