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PROCEEDINGS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON, ON THE 5^TH & 6^TH
NOVEMBER, 1773,

_Referred to by Messrs. Richard Clarke & Sons, & Benj^n Faneuil, Jun^r.,
in their above mentioned Letters, from the news papers enclosed._

[From the Massachusetts Gazette of Thursday, Nov. 11, 1773.]

The following notification was issued on Thursday last:

The freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Boston, qualified
as the law directs, are hereby notified to meet at Faneuil Hall, on
Friday, the 5^th day of November instant, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, then and there to consider the petition of a number of the
inhabitants, setting forth, "that they are justly alarmed at the report
that the East India Company, in London, are about shipping a cargo or
cargoes of tea into this and the other Colonies, and that they esteem it
a political plan of the British administration, whereby they have reason
to fear, not only the trade upon which they depend for subsistence, is
threatened to be totally destroyed, but what is much more than any thing
in life to be dreaded, the tribute laid on the foundation of that
article will be fixed and established, and our liberties, for which we
have long struggled, will be lost to them and their posterity, and
therefore praying that a meeting of the freeholders and other
inhabitants, may be immediately called, that so the sense of the matter
may be taken, and such steps be pursued as to their safety and well
being shall appertain."

By order of the Select men,
WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk.

Boston, Nov^r 4^th, 1773.

On Friday last there was a very full meeting of the freeholders, and
other inhabitants of this town, in Faneuil Hall, agreeable to a
notification issued by the Select men, when the Hon'ble John Hancock,
Esq^r., was chosen moderator, and the Town, after due deliberation, came
into the following resolutions, viz.:

Whereas, it appears by an Act of the British Parliament, passed in the
last session, that the East India Company, in London, are by the said
Act allowed to export their teas into America in such quantities as the
Lords of the Treasury shall think proper. And some persons, with an evil
intent to amuse the people, and others thro' inattention to the true
design of the Act have so construed the same as that the tribute of
three pence on every pound of tea is to be exacted by the detestable
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