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(Intolerable Acts)A group of five Parliamentary bills, known collectively as the Intolerable Acts Boston Port Act (March 1774); the Massachusetts Government Act and the Impartial Administration of Justice Act (May 1774); the Quartering Act; and the Quebec Act (June 1774). London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1774. The caption titles printed in roman, the body of the acts in black letter. Bound in a single volume. Full calf antique, paneled in blind, spine lettered gilt, plain endpapers; a few light scratches to upper board. Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. XIX. An Act to discontinue, in such Manner, and for such Time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour, of Boston, in the Province of Massachuset's Bay, in North America. Light text browning, small hole in title-page costing a portion of two words ("Anno Domini"), closed . — Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap XXXIX. An Act for the impartial Administration of Justice in the Cases of Persons questioned for any Acts done by them in the Execution of the Law, or for the Suppression of Riots and Tumults, in the Province of the Massachuset's Bay, in New England, Light toning throughout. — Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. XLV. An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachuset's Bay, in New England. Light toning. — Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. LIV. An Act for the better providing suitable Quarters for Officers and Soldiers in His Majesty's Service in North America. — Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. LXXXIII. An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America. Colonial resistance to the Tea Act culminated in the Boston Tea Party, which led the outraged British ministry to pass a number of punitive measures, known as the Intolerable Acts (and in part also as the Coercion Acts). Effective 1 June 1774, the Boston Port Bill prohibited the loading or unloading of ships in Boston harbor until remuneration had been made for the tea destroyed during the Tea Party. Exempted were military stores, food, and fuel on the provision that these commodities were cleared by a customs official in Salem. The Administration of Justice Act (20 May 1774) provided that any royal official accused of committing a capital crime in support of the government would not be tried in the provincial court where he was situated. Instead, the case would be tried in another colony or in England. The Massachusetts Government Act (20 May 1774) virtually annulled the colony's charter and gave the governor absolute control over town meetings. While the Quartering Act and the Quebec Act were not integral to the coercive program, they were considered equally menacing by the colonists. Much to Lord North's consternation, these acts, intended to restore peace and order in America and to isolate Massachusetts, "rallied the other twelve colonies to the side of Massachusetts, [and] produced the first Continental Congress" (Pollard, Factors in American History, 1), which was first proposed by Rhode Island on 17 May, four days after General Gage assumed the role of Military Governor over Massachusetts. REFERENCECelebration of My Country 17; ESTC N57444, N57464, N57470, N57479, N57508; Revolutionary Hundred 17