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Act to continue...an act...for the better payment of the army and their quarters

The Quartering Act, which modified previous acts dealing with punishing munity and desertion, better pay, and quartering for the army. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. Paginated 315-316 + unpaginated title page.

GLC03971

An Act for the better regulating the government of... Massachusetts Bay

Reorganizing the government of Massachusetts.
[one of the "Intolerable Acts"]

GLC03562.20

An Act for the impartial administration of justice [protecting Tory officials]

One of the five "Intolerable Acts"

GLC03562.21

An Act for repealing... An Act for the... regulating the government... of Mass.

GLC03562.24

to Henry Jackson

Comments on the "disagreeable" current events. Indicates that General Thomas Gage, then the commander-in-chief and governor of Massachusetts, "must recede," otherwise "carnage & bloodshed seem inevitable - there never was anything like the flame...

GLC05663

to Catharine Macaulay

Adams describes the effects of the Boston Port Bill upon the government and people of the colony. He warns that the arrest of Parliament's opponents "will produce Resistance, and Reprisals, and a Flame through America, Such as Eye hath not yet Seen...

GLC01788

[Mary E. Walker, M.D.]

Photograph of the Civil War surgeon Mary Walker wearing her army Medal of Honor. Walker's medal was revoked in 1917 when conditions for the medal were changed to warrant only battle conditions. Her Medal of Honor was reinstated in 1977. An...

GLC05152