Show Stamp 1765 One of the more significant dates in American history is November It was on this more than two hundred years that the Frederick court ordered its regular business carried on without the use of stamped paper-as required by the famous Stamp AT THIS time American states were still English In March of that Year Parliament had passed the Stamp recommended by Sir William a former royal Governor of The act levied a stamp tax of three pence to ten shillings on legal two pounds on college four pounds on licenses to sell two to six shillings on ten shillings on a pair of a shilling an a pack of playing a shilling for every advertisement in a THE TAX outraged many who felt that only their own state assemblies had the taxing authority over Patrick Henry in Virginia managed to get a defiant resolution adopted by the Virginia General so much so that it was expunged from the record the day after it was Aroused citizens in many states destroyed the stamps which had been sent from The bitter reaction was so widespread wiser heads in London favored repeal of the Benjamin the American agent in was summoned before the House of Commons and wisely warned members that if the act were enforced with arms the enforcers would not find rebellion but make THE ACT was four months after the Maryland court's it had sparked such resentment and such a surge r of nationalism many believe i t helped appreciably to bring about the Declaration of Independence a decade later in |