On Wednesday, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee called on Pakistan to jointly monitor their disputed Kashmir border to avoid infiltration into India by Muslim militants _ a conciliatory proposal that many are hoping could reduce tensions.
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Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778, which repealed a number of taxes ( including the tea tax that underlaid this act ) as one of a number of conciliatory proposals presented to the Second Continental Congress by the Carlisle Peace Commission.
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The Commission was mandated by the Crown to offer the rebel Americans pardons ( with some exceptions ), to allow judges to serve on condition of good behaviour, and to promise to discuss colonial grievances ( except the Quebec Act ) in exchange for a cease-fire, the dissolution of the Continental Congress, the re-establishment of the pre-war ( traditional ) colonial assemblies, the acceptance of Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and compensation for the Loyalists adversely affected by the war.
