<Dl> <Dd> whereas a great abuse has been made of the power of calling such meetings, and the inhabitants have, contrary to the design of their institution, been misled to treat upon matters of the most general concern, and to pass many dangerous and unwarrantable resolves: for remedy whereof, be it enacted...no meeting shall be called...without the leave of the governor, (apart from one annual election meeting). </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> whereas a great abuse has been made of the power of calling such meetings, and the inhabitants have, contrary to the design of their institution, been misled to treat upon matters of the most general concern, and to pass many dangerous and unwarrantable resolves: for remedy whereof, be it enacted...no meeting shall be called...without the leave of the governor, (apart from one annual election meeting). </Dd> <P> When Governor Thomas Gage invoked the act in October 1774 to dissolve the provincial assembly, its Patriot leaders responded by setting up an alternative government that actually controlled everything outside Boston . They argued the new Act had nullified the contract between the king and the people . They ignored Gage's order for new elections and set up the Massachusetts Provincial Congress . It acted as the province's (and from 1776 the state's) government until the 1780 adoption of the Massachusetts State Constitution . The governor only had control in Boston, where his soldiers were based . </P> <P> Parliament repealed the Act in 1778 as part of attempts to reach a diplomatic end to the ongoing American Revolutionary War . </P>

Which of the following repealed the charter of the massachusetts bay colony