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Tariff - Great Britain - Rates - Early works to 1800

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    The neat duties (all discounts and abatements deducted) of all merchandize specify'd in the book of rates , Begun in the 12 of Car. II. With the several Variations to this present Year 1708. Both in decimal and vulgar arithmetick: Each Article in the Decimals being Calculated to a Ten Thousand Part of a Farthing; for the Merchants in one Line, the Duty and Draw-Back may be seen exactly cast up: And at the end of Merchandize Inwards are Tables for Her Majesties Officers, (or others) if they please, viz. 1/3 1/2 2/3, I whole, 2 whole, 3 whole Subsidies, and the Impost 90, 9 2/3, and 96; answering all the several Rates, specified in the last Book of Rates, from One Penny Half Penny, to Three hundred and Sixty Pounds. The Turky or Levant Company's Duties, viz. Impositions, Consulage, how many Hundred Weight goes to a Ton of each Commodity, and the Freight they have for the same Tonnage; from Constantinople, Smyrna, Allepo and Cyprus. Never yet made Publick. And also a small treatise of decimals, Or, that most Compendious Arithmetick in Practice, made Easie. By Tho. Langham of London, Broker.

    Langham, Thomas, Broker. | Date: 1708

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