Note 55 — Chapter II · CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE QUEBEC ACT (continued 2)

The Quebec Act was 14 Geo. III, cap. 83, and its full title was ‘An act for making more effectual provision for the government of the Province of Quebec in North America’. The Quebec Revenue Act was 14 Geo. III, cap. 88, and its full title was ‘An act to establish a fund towards further defraying the charges of the Administration of Justice and support of the Civil Government within the Province of Quebec in America’. Much was heard of this latter Act in the constitutional wrangles of later years in Lower Canada.