The Tea Act British Parliment - 1773 An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free. WHEREAS by an act, made in ...

Americans fought for liberty, but some of our tea-smuggling founders may have had a different Liberty in mind. ...