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Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows."WHEREAS by an act made in the last session of parliament, several duties were granted, continued, and appropriated, towards defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and securing, the British colonies and plantations in America: and whereas it is just and necessary, that provision be made for raising a further revenue within your Majesty's dominions in America, towards defraying the said expences....For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, a... duty of ten pounds."The excerpt above is from what act passed by British Parliament?
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