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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On July 14, 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution declaring two British parliamentary acts restraining trade and commerce in several North American colonies as unconstitutional, oppressive, and cruel. It urged commercial opposition to these acts, alongside others, until repealed. Attested by Secretary Charles Thomson.
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RESOLVED, That the two Acts passed in the first Session of the present Parliament, the one intituled, " An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and the Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, or other Places therein mentioned, under certain Conditions and Limitations ; " the other intituled, " An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, under certain Conditions and Limitations ; " are unconstitutional, Oppressive and Cruel, and that the Commercial Opposition of these Colonies, to certain Acts enumerated in the association of the last Congress, ought to be made against these until they are repealed.
A true Copy from the Minutes
CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'y.
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1775 07 14
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resolution calls for commercial opposition to the acts until repealed.
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The Continental Congress resolved that two specified British Acts restraining trade and commerce of various North American colonies to Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies, and prohibiting certain fisheries, are unconstitutional, oppressive, and cruel. It stated that commercial opposition by the colonies, as in the association of the last Congress, should extend to these acts until repealed.