History of Lowell and its people . 1730, writes James Oneal, in The Workers in .-\merican History,Parliament passed acts prohibiting the erection of any mill or enginefor slitting or rolling iron or any plating forge or any steel were not allowed to take more than two apprentices at a timeor any for more than seven years. It was made illegal to manufacturehats or woolens in one colony and sell in another. These laws weregenerally violated by resorting to smuggling. Pre-Revolutionary protests against the usurpations of the Lon-don government were by no means confined
History of Lowell and its people . 1730, writes James Oneal, in The Workers in .-\merican History,Parliament passed acts prohibiting the erection of any mill or enginefor slitting or rolling iron or any plating forge or any steel were not allowed to take more than two apprentices at a timeor any for more than seven years. It was made illegal to manufacturehats or woolens in one colony and sell in another. These laws weregenerally violated by resorting to smuggling. Pre-Revolutionary protests against the usurpations of the Lon-don government were by no means confined to the coast towns, whosetrading classes were most directly affected. The attitude of the coun-try was generally one of cordial support to every policy of this regard the towns under consideration were certainly not excep-tional. During the agitation concerning the stamp act of 1765,Chelmsfcirds declaration of rights was made through a special townmeeting in the furin (jf instructions to Cohinel Samson Stoddard, then. h 5 IN THE REVOLUTION 75 the towns representative in the General Court. Here is the well ex-pressed resolution: This being a time when, by reason of several acts of Parliament,not only this province, but all the English colonies of this continentare thrown into the utmost confusion and perplexity: the Stamp Act,as we apprehend, not only lays an unconstitutional but also an insup-portable tax upon us, and deprives us, as we humbly conceive, of thoserights and privileges to which we are entitled as free born subjects ofGreat Britain by the Royal Charter: wherefore we think it our dutyand interest at this critical conjuncture of our public affairs, to directyou, sir, our representative, to be so far from countenancing the execu-tion of the aforesaid Stamp Act, that you use your best endeavors thatsuch measures ma}- be taken and such remonstrances made to theKing and Parliament, as may obtain a speedy repeal of the aforesaidact, and a removal of the burd
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