For example the Molasses Act which would have done a "crippling job"(10) on the lucrative and economically important New England rum trade was gotten around by paying the customs officers from a half penny to a penny and a half in return for those officers not collecting sixpence per gallon on molasses imported. ... (51) The fact that brings up this doubt is that they did "submit to the tea and molasses duties during the 1770-1773 periods" (51) "Neither the stamp tax nor the Townshend duties were formidable in themselves, but the colonists saw in each the entering wedge of a movement to depri...

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