Great Britain. Laws & Statutes (George III)

Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis ... Quarto [–Quinquagesimo Septimo]. At the Parliament begun ... the Nineteenth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1761 ... And from thence continued ... to the Fifteenth Day of November 1763 [–12 July 1817]. London: Printed by Mark Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett [later Charles or George Eyre & William Strahan], 1764 [–1817]



142 acts, folio (12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 310 x 196 mm). Most titles in woodcut frames with woodcut vignette of the royal arms, but a few in the later years with drop titles and woodcut arms; some occasional spotting and light browning. Disbound and arranged by subject in paper folders, housed in seven red half-morocco drop-boxes, gilt-stamped titles on spines, with a typed index of the contents in a red half-morocco folding-case.

Fine extensive run of  public acts of the British Parliament in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolution.

Of inestimable value for research, this series provides the official text of such brazen usurpations of colonial prerogatives as: the Stamp Act (March 1765, Box 1, no. 3) imposing the first direct tax on the colonies payable to England and not to local legislatures (repealed in March 1766, Ibid.), the Quartering Act (March 1765, Box 1, no. 4) requiring colonists to house British troops and supply them with food, the Declaratory Act (March 1766, Box 1, no. 5) stating the British government had total power to legislate any laws governing the colonies, the Townshend Revenue Acts (June 1767, Box 2a, no. 8) imposing a new set of taxes on commodities (repealed in 1770, Ibid.), the Tea Act (May 1773, Box 2a, no. 10) maintaining a threepenny per pound import tax on tea arriving in the colonies — giving the British East India Company a monopoly, and the Coercive Acts (March 1774, Box 2a, no. 14) including the Boston Port Bill, to name just a few.

This is not a complete run of the acts of Parliament, as the compiler concentrated on the American Revolution and later laws dealing with Britain's relations to the new-made country, performing a useful service to the researcher saved the task of searching for acts and later responses to or repeals of those acts.

A copy of the typed index will be provided upon application to the department.