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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The New Jersey Assembly on the 24th ult. unanimously resolved to empower the United States Congress with exclusive trade regulation powers and to prohibit British vessels from carrying U.S. produce, in response to British restrictions on West Indies trade.
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Resolved unanimously, That the United States in Congress assembled, ought to be vested with the exclusive power of regulating trade and commerce throughout the United States of America.
Resolved unanimously, That the United States in Congress assembled, ought to be impowered, and ought when so impowered, to prohibit British vessels from being the carriers of the growth or produce of these United States, or of the growth or produce of these United States to any of the British West India Islands, so long as the restriction in the said proclamation expressed shall be continued by, or on the part of Great Britain.
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New Jersey
Event Date
The 24th Ult.
Outcome
two resolutions passed unanimously empowering congress to regulate trade and prohibit british vessels from carrying u.s. produce to the british west india islands while british restrictions continue.
Event Details
The Assembly of New Jersey considered the British King's prohibition on non-British subjects sending U.S. produce to the West Indies, viewing it as injurious to free commerce, and passed two unanimous resolutions vesting exclusive trade regulation power in the United States Congress and authorizing prohibition of British carriers under the ongoing restrictions.