To the customers for Thomas's Massachusetts spy : ... The tax on news-paper advertisements has a direct tendency not only to restrain, but to destroy those necessary vehicles of publick information, by taking away their only support ... These considerations have induced the printer of the Massachusetts spy, although with greatest reluctance, to discontinue the publication of that news-paper ...

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Main Author:	Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 44975.
Subjects:	Massachusetts. > Act for repealing a law ... intitled, "An act imposing duties on licenced vellum, parchment and paper," and for imposing other duties on certain papers ... Massachusetts spy (Worcester, Mass.) Worcester magazine (Worcester, Mass. : 1786) Publishers and publishing > Massachusetts > Worcester. Periodicals > Publishing > Massachusetts > Worcester. Freedom of the press > Massachusetts. Newspaper publishing > Massachusetts > Worcester. Advertising laws > Massachusetts. Prospectuses. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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