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APPENDIX. 



Note. The number of ounces of gold plate and of silver plate on which 

 duty was paid in Great Britain for the year ending the 5th of January, 1800, 

 cannot be given, no distinction of gold and silver plate having been made in 

 the office books ; neither has there been any distinction made of the duties on 

 gold and silver plate for the country till the year ending the 5th of January, 

 1818, the country assay offices not having rendered in their accounts of the 

 total quantity of gold and silver assayed separately. The product of the duty 

 on plate has, therefore, in these instances been given. 



With respect to Ireland, the Comptroller of Accounts there has attached 

 the following notes to his account : 



" The duties on plate from the 5th of January, 1799, to the 1 1th of August, 

 1807, were under the management of the Commissioners of Excise, and were 

 collected by an officer of that branch of the revenue. From the 1 1th of August, 

 1807, to the 5th of July, 1825, the duties on plate were collected by an officer 

 of the corporation of goldsmiths, from whose books the account for that period 

 is prepared ; but the number of ounces of gold and silver can only be separately 

 set forth from the 5th of July, 1825, at which time the duties were transferred 

 to the management of the Commissioners of Stamps. 



" No drawbacks are allowed by law on plate wrought in Ireland." 



Accompt. and Compt.- General's Office, S. R. BARKER, 



Stamps, Pro. A. and C. G. 



9th September, 1830. 



