Currency Act

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The Currency Act of 1764 forbade colonists from using paper money as legal tender to pay their public or private debts. This measure represented an effort by Parliament to prevent colonists from paying their debts to British merchants in depreciated currency as well as a means of limiting the authority of the colonial assemblies.


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