Liquor industry - Taxation - Great Britain
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A letter from a member of Parliament to his friend in the country : containing his reasons for being against the late act for preventing the retail of spirituous liquors : in which the great increase of the civil list by this act will be particularly consider'd.
Member of ParliamentDate: [1736]- E-books
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An impartial inquiry into the benefits and damages arising to the nation from the present very great use of low-priced spirituous liquors with Proper estimates thereupon, and some Considerations humbly offered for preventing the Introduction of Foreign Spirits not paying the Duties. By J. T. of Bristol. Author of the Brief Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages which respectively attend France and Great Britain, with regard to Trade.
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799.Date: 1751- E-books
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Address from Sir John Dalrymple, Bart . one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland, to the landholders of England, upon the interest which they have in the state of the distillery laws.
Dalrymple, John, Sir, 1726-1810.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- E-books
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The consequences of laying an additional duty on spirituous liquors, candidly considered . By a bystander.
BystanderDate: [1751]- E-books
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Three letters upon the subject of the Gin Act, and common informers . I. ----From a Citizen of London to a freeholder in the county of Norfolk concerning informers in general---particularly the present practice of those people, in which is consider'd the method of trials upon penal-laws, as well in a summary way as that by Juries.---- with the substance of the trials of some Citizens of London, at Guildhall in December last, for an assault up on a common informer. II. ---- From A.B. Esq; to the good Citizens of London. Occasioned by the outrages committed in putting the Law in execution for suppressing the pernicious custom of retailing spirituous liquors. III. ---- Answer to the said letter, wherein the Citizens of London and the Company of Distillers, are defended from the reflections cast on them in the said A B's letter, with a postscript, in relation to two paragraphs the one published in the London, and the other in the general evening posts. To which is added, a letter in respect to the lights in London, and the present darkness of Westminster.
Date: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]