Boston Port Act
03/31/1774 AD decreed
One of five measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that enacted during the spring of 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
Outlaws the use of the Port of Boston (by setting up a barricade/blockade) for "landing and discharging, loading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise" until restitution was made to the King's treasury (for customs duty lost) and to the East India Company for damages suffered. In other words, it closed Boston Port to all ships, no matter what business the ship had. It also provided that Massachusetts Colony's seat of government should be moved to Salem and Marblehead made a port of entry. The Act was to take effect on June 1
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