 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...the first of February, 1775, he offered to the House of Peers a bill for that purpose, entitled, " A provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." It declared, that the colonies of America were of right dependent upon the Imperial Crown of Great... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 786 pages
...Americans, presented to the House of Lords [February 1] the outlines of a bill, which he entitled, A provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. He proposed, on the one hand, to legalize the convocation of a new American congress, which should... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 775 pages
...presented to tha House of Lords [February 1] the outlines of a bill, which he entitled, A provisional Jlct for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting...superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. He proposed, on the one hand, to legalize the convocation of a new American congress, which should... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1856 - 538 pages
...Gordon's Am. Rev. L 290-292 ; of Franklin, and Lord Mahon's Hist. CHAP, dncing a provisional bill " for settling the troubles in America, ^^, and for asserting the supreme legislative authority and super1776. intending power of Great Britain over the colonies." But this bill was as objectionable... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...on Wednesday, the 1st of February, he suhmitted it to the house. He called it " A Provisional Bill for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting...Authority and superintending Power of Great Britain ever the Colonies." In the speech made on this occasion, he said, he offered this bill as a basis of... | |
 | Andrew Wight (of Philadelphia), Joseph Sabin - 1864 - 328 pages
...Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House of Lords, entitled " A Provincial Act," for settling Troubles in America, and for Asserting the Supreme...Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies, which was rejected, and not suffered to lie upon the Table. 4to, half morocco. Lond. J. Almon, MDCCLXXV.... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 534 pages
...indulging some lingering hopes of conciliation, introduced, after a consultation with Franklin, a bill " for settling the troubles in America, and for asserting...authority and superintending power of Great Britain over America " ; but the project met with no better success. 1 A joint address to the King, declaring Massachusetts... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - 1880 - 556 pages
...notwithstanding the large majority against him, brought in, the 1st of February, a Bill entitled " A Provisional Act for Settling the Troubles in America,...Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." The Bill, however, was not allowed to be read the first time, or even to lie on the table, but was... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...used all his persuasive powers to prevent the outbreak of civil war. He introduced a bill entitled " A provisional Act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." In this measure the claim of the crown to tax the colonies was abandoned, the British troops were ordered... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1890 - 718 pages
...Protest of eighteen Peers. ,775 The Earl of Chatham presented to the House Feb' of Lords a Bill entitled "A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." After referring to the Declaratory Act of Lord Rockingham's administration, 1 Josiah Quincy, Jr., was... | |
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A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. 
