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act , and the quebec act . [ ] these acts placed harsher legislation on the colonies, especially in massachusetts, changed the justice system in the colonies, made colonists provide for the quartering of permanent british troops, and expanded the borders of quebec. [ ] the colonies became enraged at
a board of commissioners, with unconstitutional powers, and extended the jurisdiction of courts of admiralty, not only for collecting the said duties, but for the trial of causes merely arising within the body of a county: in consequence of other statutes, judges, who before held only estates at will...
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