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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 
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Concerning the Exportation of Cider * 
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The annexed documents confirm the privilege of exporting 
our ciders to England, free of the duties levied on that which 
tomes from foreign countries. It is advisable, that persons, 
Who are engaged in this trade, with a view to prevent trouble, 
should supply themselves with a copy of them, attested by 
some magistrate, and authenticated under the seal of thd 
Island. 
Extract from the Register of the States qf the Island of Jersey. 
COUNCIL OFFICE. 
Whitehalli 2 6 th April , 1797. 
SIR, 
The Lords of the Committee of Council for the Affairs 
bf Jersey and Guernsey, having lately received a Report from 
the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury, upon a 
Petition of the States of the Island of Jersey, dated 4th April, 
t796, (which their Lordships had thought proper to refer to 
the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's 
Treasury) respecting the importation of goods, wares, and 
merchandize, of tile growth, produce, and manufacture, of 
the said island, and complaining particularly that the impor¬ 
tation from Jersey of cider of the growth of the said island 
into the ports of this kingdom, free of duty, had, in some late 
instances, been objected to, by the officers of excise, See. Sc c. 
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