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Colonial South Carolina legislative controversy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wilkes fund controversy was a political controversy in South Carolina concerning the colonial legislature's appropriation of funds to a group supporting John Wilkes, a British Radical who was expelled from the British parliament in 1769.
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