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apr 5, 1764 - Sugar Act

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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

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apr 5, 1764
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~ 261 years ago

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