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- Q7859153 subject Q8197615.
- Q7859153 abstract "The Two Penny Act, enacted in 1758 by the Virginia Assembly, was a law that affected the compensation of Anglican ministers in the Virginia colony. From the controversy surrounding it arose the Parson's Cause trial, which is regarded as an important event in the history of American Independence. The act was issued after three years of drought which produced a low-yielding tobacco crop. The one-year measure allowed Anglican ministers' salaries to be paid at a fixed rate of two cents per pound of tobacco, as tobacco was often used as currency. The market rate at the time was set at four to six pence per pound of tobacco. Once the loss of value was factored in, a clergyman was receiving about one-third of his normal, stipulated salary. The colony's councilors had approved and with the House of Burgesses, convinced Francis Fauquier, the royal governor, to allow the act to go into effect. In doing so, Fauquier deviated from his royally mandated instructions. He defended his royal malfeasance by arguing that, in reality, he had no choice. "As the Bill," he wrote, "was a temporary Law to ease the people from a Burthen [sic] which the Country thought too great for them to bear...The country were intent upon it, and both the Council and the House of Burgesses were almost unanimous in their pressing it. And I conceived it would be a very wrong Step for me to take who was an entire Stranger to the Distresses of the Country, to set my Face against the whole colony by refusing the Bill which I had a Precedent for Passing. Whatever may be the Case now, I am persuaded that if I had refused it, I must have despaired ever gaining any Influence either in the Council or House of Burgesses."In May 1759 petitions were presented to the British Board of Trade on behalf of the Virginia Clergy asking for its repeal. Lord Halifax recommended the act be disallowed and demanded that Governor Fauquier "for the future strictly observe and obey" his Royal instructions. It was disallowed by the end of August 1759 by the Board.".
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- Q7859153 comment "The Two Penny Act, enacted in 1758 by the Virginia Assembly, was a law that affected the compensation of Anglican ministers in the Virginia colony. From the controversy surrounding it arose the Parson's Cause trial, which is regarded as an important event in the history of American Independence. The act was issued after three years of drought which produced a low-yielding tobacco crop.".
- Q7859153 label "Two Penny Act".
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