Note 174 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Ames's Almanac for 1766 has this notice: "Price before the Stamp Act takes place, half-a-dollar per dozen, and six coppers single; after the act takes place, more than double that price." The act was called, Anno regni Georgii III. regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, quinto. 1765. An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same [etc.]. It was reprinted at once in Boston, New London, New York, and Philadelphia, and will be found in the official records and in various modern books like Spencer's Hist. U. S. (i. 274), etc. The stamps are found in various cabinets (Catal. Mass. Hist. Soc. Cab., pp. 104, 118, 123, 125), and cuts of the stamp are found in Mem. Hist. Boston (iii. 12), Thornton's Pulpit of the Rev., etc.