The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament on March 22, 1765 with an effective date of November 1, 1765. It passed 205â49 in the House of Commons and unanimously in the House of Lords. Historians Edmund and Helen Morgan describe the specifics of the tax:oward became the only prominent American to publicly support the Stamp Act in his pamphlet A Colonist's Defence of Taxation (1765). After the riots Howard had to leave the colony but was rewarded by the Crown with an appointment as Chief Justice of North Carolina at a salary of â¤1000.
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