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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 02, 1774
Page
4
The letter argues a parliamentary act intended to allocate votes by stock tier, contending the Court of Directors plan for a 24-name submission undermines the act. It notes proprietors with 3000 and 6000 guineas could lose votes and questions the fairness of the method. Leatherhead, March 31.
Boston Gazette reports on February 12 the House of Representatives directed delivery of a remonstrance to Governor and Council demanding the removal of Peter Oliver Esq Chief Justice. The remonstrance accuses Oliver of accepting salary from July 1772 to January 1774 in violation of the Royal Charter and colonial custom.
A prolonged constitutional clash unfolds as the Governor declines the House’s demand to remove the Chief Justice. He cites royal instructions to pay salaries and warns against defying the King’s authority, promising to relay remonstrances to the Crown. The House seeks council guidance to avert public unrest.
A collection of brief items mentions ships Roebuck Medway and Scarborough with commissioning and launch plans, a death of coal-merchant Thomas Woolsey in town, and letters from Rome Warsaw and Dantzick noting political and military developments. Also reported are a Genoese fishing accident near Deptford, Sadlers Wells entertainments, and local deaths in Lewes and Gloucester with India news.
The Temper and The Elopements are shown this evening at Covent Garden along with Cymbeline and The Deserter. Also on the bill King Henry the Second with The Sylphs, and Love fig Love with The Country Madcap.
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