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Peyton Randolph Virginia 1 Yes From the Fairfax Stone the North Branch Potomac River flows 27 miles (43 km) to the man-made Jennings Randolph Lake an impoundment designed for flood control and emergency water supply Below the dam the North Branch cuts a serpentine path through the eastern Allegheny Mountains First it flows northeast by the communities of Bloomington Luke and Westernport in Maryland and then on by Keyser West Virginia to Cumberland Maryland at Cumberland the river turns southeast 103 miles (166 km) downstream from its source the North Branch is joined by the South Branch between Green Spring and South Branch Depot West Virginia from whence it flows past Hancock Maryland and turns southeast once more on its way toward Washington D.C and the Chesapeake Bay. .

Subsequent English governments continued in their efforts to tax certain goods passing acts regulating the trade of wool, hats and molasses the Molasses Act of 1733 in particular was egregious to the colonists as a significant part of colonial trade relied on the product the taxes severely damaged the New England economy and the taxes were rarely paid resulting in a surge of smuggling bribery and intimidation of customs officials. Colonial wars fought in America were often the source of considerable tension the British captured the fortress of Louisbourg during the War of the Austrian Succession but then ceded it back to France in 1748 New England colonists resented their losses of lives as well as the effort and expenditure involved in subduing the fortress only to have it returned to their erstwhile enemy, Members elected since 1984 are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) Like other federal employees congressional retirement is funded through taxes and participants' contributions Members of Congress under FERS contribute 1.3% of their salary into the FERS retirement plan and pay 6.2% of their salary in Social Security taxes and like federal employees members contribute one-third of the cost of health insurance with the government covering the other two-thirds. . 5.5 The end of the war In June 1864 Lincoln approved the Yosemite Grant enacted by Congress which provided unprecedented federal protection for the area now known as Yosemite National Park, The American colonials proclaimed "no taxation without representation" starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 They rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they had no representatives in that governing body Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the burning of the Gaspee in Rhode Island in 1772 followed by the Boston Tea Party in December 1773 the British responded by closing Boston Harbor and enacting a series of punitive laws which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony's rights of self-government the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts and a group of American Patriot leaders set up their own government in late 1774 at the Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance of Britain; other colonists retained their allegiance to the Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories.