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8363. TEA, Duty on.—

So inscrutable is
the arrangement of causes and consequences in
this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly
imposed in a sequestered part of it,
changes the condition of all its inhabitants.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 106. Ford ed., i, 147.
(1821)

See Boston Port Bill.