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Duty-free importation of boats - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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    A concise abstract of the most important clauses in the following interesting acts of Parliament, passed in the session of 1779; By which the Public in general are more immediately affected, than by any passed in any former Session, viz. 1. Act for the Suppression of Smugglers, and the Protection and Encouragement of Fair Traders. 2. Act for Preventing Personal Arrests under Ten Pounds. 3. Act for Raising, Embodying, and Regulating the Militia in England, and Fencible Men in Scotland. 4. Act for Impressing Seamen. 5. Act for Erecting Penitentiary Houses for the Confinement of Offenders convicted of Transportable Crimes. 6. Act for imposing Taxes on Dwelling-Houses, and Hired Servants. 7. Act for imposing Taxes on Post and other Hired Horses, and Carriages. 8. Act for Additional Stamp Duties, wherein are ascertained the Quantity of Chancery and Common-Law Sheets. 9. Act for Licensing Auctioneers, and Taxing Estates and Goods sold by Auction. With a preface, notes, and observations, by a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.

    Great Britain | Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

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