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4991. MANUFACTURES, British prohibition of.—

By an act passed in the fifth
year of the reign of his late Majesty, King
George II., an American subject is forbidden
to make a hat for himself, of the fur which
he has taken perhaps on his own soil; an instance
of despotism to which no parallel can
be produced in the most arbitrary ages of
British history.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 129. Ford ed., i, 434.
(1774)