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5994. NON-IMPORTATION, Efficacy of.—

The most eligible means of effecting
* * * the reestablishment of the constitutional
rights of our fellow-subjects, will be to
put an immediate stop to all imports from
Great Britain * * * and to all exports
thereto, * * * and immediately to discontinue
all commercial intercourse with every
part of the British Empire which shall not, in
like manner, break off their commerce with
Great Britain. [365]
Resolution of Albemarle County. Ford ed., i, 419.
(July 26, 1774)

 
[365]

Albermale was Jefferson's native county. The
date of putting the regulations into effect was October
1, 1775.—Editor.