Equal Protection and Race........................................................................................................ 1839. Overview..............................................................................................................................
Sugar cane plantations in the colonies of the West Indies. The older Sugar and Molasses tax charged the customer a duty of 6 pence per gallon of molasses. The bribe to customs officials per gallon of smuggled molasses was 1.5p. The new Sugar Act lowered the duty to 3p per gallon.
1 The Townshend Acts were not the first taxes levied on the American colonist by the British. 2  The Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 came first.3  The Stamp Act was especially unpopular and was repealed in March of 1766. The Revenue Act of 1767 - this act, by itself, is often referred to as the Townshend Act. 2  This law taxed tea, paper, paint, glass, and lead imported into the colonies. 3  Indemnity Act-this act lowered the tax on Great Britain's largest trading company, the East India Company.