13+ The Bostonians Paying The Excise (Tax) Man 1774 Pictures. Bostonians paying the excise man tax collector. Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury.
Prints, etching, intaglio prints, engravings, mezzotints, europe, united kingdom, october 31, 1774, mezzotint and etching, metropolitan museum of art. It goes into the general fund of each city and town motor vehicle excise tax revenue goes to a community's general fund for the support of the general. Bostonians were used to governing themselves rather than the british monarchy ruling them.
Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury.
The british government felt the taxes were fair since much of its debt was earned fighting wars on the colonists' behalf. Prints, etching, intaglio prints, engravings, mezzotints, europe, united kingdom, october 31, 1774, mezzotint and etching, metropolitan museum of art. United states library of congress's prints and photographs division, washington d.c. Bostonians were used to governing themselves rather than the british monarchy ruling them.