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A Source Book in American History to 1787

Note 123 — b. An Association against the Stamp Act in a Virginia County, 1766

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This final clause refers to a provision withdrawing from trial in colonial courts any servants of the government accused of violence in the performance of duty. The list of offending statutes is repeated, somewhat less impressively but more specifically, in the Continental Congress's Declaration (130 c).

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