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...Ferry concession was immediately rented for an annual sum of 30 pounds. After eight years of difficulties with the concession, the two gentlemen who had rented it surrendered their title, explaining to the Court that what little payment actually was made by passengers was in "refuse, unwrought, broken, unstrung, and unmerchantable peag wampum." Later in the same year President Dunster informed the Court that "all the bad and unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the college treasury from ferry toll." Nevertheless, Harvard held on to the concession and its returns until 1785, when the first toll...
Great Britain?Canada. Quids: 1) free entry for five years to all Canadian products now duty free, reserving the right to impose duties after three years on dairy products; 2) preference to Canada by imposing duties on foreign dairy products, certain fruits, unwrought copper (2d. a lb.), wheat (25. a quarter, or 6¢ a bushel); 3) continuation of the 10% ad valorem duty on foreign timber, zinc, lead, asbestos, fish (Canada had wanted the tariff on timber increased); 4) a ten-year extension of the preference on Canadian tobacco...
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