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Notes on the Cultivation oj Tobacco 
Under authority from the Lords of the Treasury the experimental cultiva- 
tion of Tobacco is to be permitted in the United Kingdom. 
An occupier of land, intending to plant Tobacco, must, on or before the 
5th of May, give notice to the Secretary of Inland Revenue, Somerset House, 
setting forth the extent of the land to be planted and the place, parish, and 
county where situate. 
Bond under approved securities will be required in a penalty of 100^ if 
over an acre of ground is cultivated, and 50?. if under an acre, in order to 
secure that all Tobacco grown and gathered shall be removed to drying-room 
and kept there until properly cured, when it shall be packed in bags, bales, or 
casks of an approved size, and it must then be weighed by a Revenue Officer. 
After weighing the packages, the duty must be paid, or the Tobacco be 
deposited in an approved Customs or Excise Warehouse. 
KXOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESEKTS that We 
are held and firmly boimd unto our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the 
Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
Queen Defender of the Faith in the sum of to be paid to our 
said Lady the Queen her heirs or successors for which payment well 
and truly to be made we bind ourselves and each of us and the heirs 
executors and administrators of us and of each of us jointly and 
severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seals. 
Dated this day of in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight himdred and eighty 
Whereas the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have consented to 
allow the cultivation of Tobacco as an experiment in the United Kingdom 
by such persons as may receive permission from the Commissioners of Inland 
Revenue (hereinafter referred to as the Commissioners) subject to such 
Regulations as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Commissioners 
notwithstanding the provisions of any Act of Parliament prohibiting such 
cultivation. And whereas the above bounden has applied to the 
Commissioners for permission to cultivate Tobacco on a certain piece of land 
not exceeding in the Parish of in the County of and the 
Commissioners have consented to grant their permission subject to his 
entering into the above written Bond or Obligation. Now the condition 
of the above written Bond or Obligation is such that if the above 
bounden do and shall from time to time remove all Tobacco grown and 
gathered upon the said land to a drying-room approved by the Commissioners 
for the purpose an<l do and shall keep the said Tobacco therein until the 
same shall be properly cured and do and shall then pack the same in such 
packages as shall be prescribed or apin-oved by the Commissioners and do and 
shall permit all such Tobacco to be weighed by the proper Officer of Inland 
Revenue and do and shall immediately after such Tobacco has been so 
weighed pay to the Commissioners or to such Officer of Inland Revenue as 
they shall ap])oint to receive the same duty in respect thereof to bc»charged in 
accordance with the rate of duty of Customs upon Tobacco of a like descrip- 
tion in force at the time of payment or remove the said Tobacco with all due 
diligence and despatch to a Warehouse duly approved as a Warehouse for the 
deposit of Tobacco without payment of duty and deliver the same and every 
part thereof without alteration or diminution into the custody or possession of 
the i^roper Officer of Inland Revenue or Customs there. And if the 
said do and shall from time to time and at all times permit any 
Officer of Inland Revenue to have full access to the said land and to any room 
in which any such Tobacco shall be and do and shall observe and comply with 
all regulations prcscnbed by the Commissioners in relation to the cultivation 
