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An act that placed duties on foreign sugar and certain luxuries in order to regulate the sugar trade and raise revenues. A companion law also provided for stricter enforcement of the Navigation Acts to stop smuggling. If you were accused of smuggling you were tried in admiralty courts by crown-appointed judges without juries. It was also known as the Revenue Act. British prime minister Lord Grenville pushed through this act.
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