A. D. 1798. 449 



Cotton imported by the East-India company four per cent, ad valorem. 



Wines per tun of 252 gallons , . . from ^1 : : 6 to . 3 18 O 



Rum per 100 gallons 015 O 



Other spirits . . . per gallon from l^d .. to ... O 2^ 



Sugar per cwt O 1 10 



imported by the East-India company, three per cent on the 



amount of the sales. 



Spermaceti oil per tun of 252 gallons ... 2 3 10 



Oil of whales and other marine animals ditto . . . 4j3 to . O 16 10 



Tobacco per cwt. O 2 6 



All goods imported by the East-India company, except cotton, coffee, 

 and cacao nuts, three per cent on the amount of the sales. 



All goods of the produce or manufadure of Great Britain, except 

 fugar and thofe exempted from payment, entered outward for any part 

 of Europe, pay one half per cent on the value ; and to all other places, 

 except thofe within the limits of the Eaft-India company, two per cent. 



Sugar, entered outwards, pays, according to quality, from i/5y to 

 2/3 per hundredweight, or, if imported by the Eaft-India company, two 

 and a half per cent on the value. 



The commencement of this ad in regard to veflels out of Great 

 Britain was fixed as follows. 



In Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Mann 5'" August 1798. 



All other places in Europe 5"' September. 



All places in the West-Indies and America 5'" October. 



All places in Africa and Asia 5'" November. 



There being excife duties, and alfo cuftom duties, payable upon dif- 

 ferent kinds of fait, it was thought expedient to put the fait duties en- 

 tirely under the managenient of the commiffioners of excife, to repeal 

 the whole of the exifting duties, and to enad the following duties and 

 drawbacks, to take place on the 10"' of Odtober 1798. 



Duties, 

 Foreign salt, imported per bushel of 56 lbs. ^O 13 4 



(It must be imported in vessels of at least forty tuns burthen.) 

 SultjOr rock salt, made or dug iuEngland and Wales per bushel of 65 ll\ 



Do. Do in Scotland . per bushel of 05 lb. 



Glauber or Epsom salt per bushel of 56 lb. 



Mineral alkali or flax for glass, made from rock salt, or brine, or? 



sea water per tun .... 3 



Rock salt exported per bushel of 63 lb. 



Salt, carried Irom Scotland to England coastways, per bushel .... 



(Salt muol not be carried by land under penalty of forfeiture of tlic 

 salt, waggons, horses, £ic. and -ioffov every pound of salt, or .s^'lOO 

 upon the whole.) 



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