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(American Revolution.) "Postscript to the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2373" [Restraining Acts]: "A Bill for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons, questioned for any acts done them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, in New England" [and] "A Bill for the better regulating the government of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in North America" [caption titles]. [Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers], [June 15, 1774]. Folio sheet printed on one side (16 1/2 x 10 inches), text printed in three columns. Light creasing (where once folded), small chips at three corners (in blank margins), small surface abrasion in lower portion of third column (approx. 1/2 x 1/2 inch - with loss of a few words).
This postscript sheet prints the text of two coercive bills enacted by the Crown in response to the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773. The first provided that persons indicted of capital offenses while carrying out official duties were to be tried by courts outside the province or in England; the second ensured that Massachusetts' Governor's council was composed of Crown appointees and that no town meetings were held without the Governor's permission. These bills served to help unite the Colonies' opposition to the Crown & led to the establishment of the First Continental Congress, in Philadelphia, in September of 1774.
The first Philadelphia printing of these Restraining Acts, preceded by the Boston broadside printing of June, 1774 [Evans 13304]. The June 15th number of the Pennsylvania Gazette was issued with both a supplement and this postscript.
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