Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

With memorials, petitions, and other material on trades and goods like hemp, coffee, brewers, fisheries, cheese mongers. Other items pertain to land taxes, naval stores and supplies, expenses and salaries of officials and officers. Includes content relating to troops in East Florida and the Stamp Act in Jamaica.

With memorials, petitions, and other material regarding widows and pensioners requesting support; various appointments; sugar trade; trade in cloth; the impact of various duties and regulations, including the Stamp Act in Jamaica; relief of prisoners; lands and hereditaments. Includes content relating to Jamaica, Quebec, Corsica, Russia, and other locales.

Includes materials relating to the House of Commons; an abstract of army extraordinaries, 1765; grants to the Royal Family; the Civil List; pay of sea officers and junior clerks; the militia, armaments, maritime forces, transports, and victualling; an act for settling Jamaica; Custom House; officers at the Royal Hospital; linen trade; memorials, petitions, and other material relating to land, smugglers and frauds, mobs, disputes between New York and New Jersey, repairing an organ, and more.

With content by Mr. Bindley regarding excise laws, estimates of revenue from exportation of spirits, calculations of duties, distilleries and importation of foreign brandy and spirits, and memoranda and notes on duties and revenue in Townshend's hand.

With content relating to Jamaica and Minorca; coffee and cider; "Remarks on the Importance of Georgia;" Reports of the paymaster general on His Majesty's forces, 1765; and more.

Includes material regarding "African Committee's Vouchers," with finances on the slave trade; copies of General Wolfe's papers on the attack of Quebec; "A Plan for settling the Island of Minorca with french Protestants;" "Thoughts Concerning Florida;" and other items concerning Rhode Island, the sugar trade, the Office of Ordnance in 1759, excise accounts, and Newfoundland fisheries.

Includes material and draft resolution responding to New York's violation of the Mutiny Act; material on the Sinking Fund; "The Case of the Turk[e]y Company;" Memorial of corn merchants showing losses for 1766; building improvements; legislation about hides and skins; smuggling; the East India Company, and various notes and minutes.

Includes material on French revenues and an account of how money given for the armed forces was disposed of in 1765.