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apr 5, 1764 - Sugar Act

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Parliament passed a modified version of the sugar act and molasses act was about to expire. Under the molasses act colonial merchant had been require to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on important of foreign molasses.

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apr 5, 1764
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~ 262 years ago