6/25 By 1775 all the colonies were united by a complete system of Committees of Correspondence. The Tea Tax .-- Of all the Townshend duties only the tax on tea was left. It happened that the British East India Company had tons of tea in its London storehouses and was greatly in need of money. The government told the company that it might send tea to America without paying any taxes in England, but the three-penny colonial tax would have to be paid in the colonies. |