Libel and slander -- 18th Century.

At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America; begun and holden, by adjournment, at East-Greenwich, within and for the said colony, on the third Monday in August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, and eleventh of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth. : An act for assessing, upon the inhabitants of this colony, a rate or tax of twelve thousand pounds, lawful money.

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