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Seven Years' War

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Use the table below to answer the question.

**BRITISH NATIONAL DEBT, 1739-1775 (£ Sterling)**
Year	National Debt
1739	46,954,623
1748	78,293,313
1755	74,571,849
1762	146,682,844
1775	135,943,051

-Source: Sir John Sinclair, historian, The History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire, 1966

Which of the following pieces of legislation passed after 1762 as a reaction to the changes illustrated in the chart?