Prologue : in time, forgotten -- Introduction : imperial odyssey -- Henry Hulton's writings. Progress of American revenue from the Act of the 6th George II to the establishment of a Board of Customs in America ; Obstructions to the collection of a revenue in America from the extent of the Coast and the nature of the trade and commerce ; Obstructions to the revenue laws from the temper of the people at the time of the establishment of the Board of Customs ; Insufficiency of former measures adopted for security of the revenue in America ; Modes of resistance to the operation of the revenue laws in America : 1767, 1768 ; Exertions of government in support of its authority in America, 1768 ; Internal difficulties the Board of Customs had to combat with on its establishment ; Heads of the Faction at Boston on the establishment of the Board of Customs ; Governor Bernard and Governor Hutchinson ; Opposition to the revenue laws at Boston, 1769 and 1770 ; Mr. Temple and Dr. Franklin ; Opposition by the Town of Boston and the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1772, 1773 and 1774 to the revenue law ; Proceedings on the departure of Governor Hutchinson, June 1774 ; Proceedings of the People in the Province of Massachusetts Bay after the arrival of General Gage as governor to the close of 1774 ; Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Bay, and the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, 1774 ; Instances of persecution in New England whilst the country was in a state of anarchy, 1774 ; Proceedings in the Province of Massachusetts Bay whilst the country was in a state of anarchy and rebellion, 1775 ; A summary of the persecutions and distresses undergone by the Commissioners of the Customs of America -- Letters -- Miscellaneous pieces.
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Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 80
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