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A complete guide to the officers of His Majesty's customs in the out-ports . Being forms, precedents, and instructions for the Execution of every Branch of the Business of that Revenue; Shewing The Method of Granting, Making out, Entering, and Executing the Proper Dispatches and other Instruments: Of Keeping and Making out the several Books and Accounts relating to His Majesty's said Revenue of the Customs; And The Manner how every other Part of each Branch is to be performed by the respective Officers. To which are added, Forms and Instructions relating to the Excise on Liquors imported, the Duty of Prisage, &c. The Whole Fully illustrating and explaining the Nature of the Office of a Collector, Customer, Comptroller, Searcher, Surveyor, Land-Waiter, Coast-Waiter, Tide-Surveyor, Tide-Waiter, &c. and directing how each of them are, in their respective Stations, to execute the several Laws of the Customs. Offered for the Ease and Assistance of the said Officers. By Henry Crouch, of the Custom-House, London; Author of the Complete View of the British Customs.
Crouch, Henry d. 1732.Date: 1732- E-books
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The British gauger or, trader and officer's instructor, in the Royal revenue of the excise and the customs. Part I. Containing the necessary rules of vulgar and decimal arithmetic, and the whole Art of Practical Gauging, both by Pen and Rule; illustrated with a great Variety of curious and useful Examples. Part II. An Historical and Succinct account of all the laws relating to the excise, from the first Commencement thereof, to the present Time. To which are added, Tables of the Old and New Duties, Drawbacks, &c. on Beer, Ale, Spirits, Soap, Candles, &c. And a large and copious Index. Embellished with six folio copper plates, adapted to, and explanatory of the whole Work. By Samuel Clark.
Clark, Samuel teacher of mathematics.Date: 1761- E-books
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A complete view of the British Customs . Containing, I. A perfect and distinct account of the several particular branches whereof that revenue consists. II. The Former and Additional Books of the Rates of Merchandizes, from which most of those Branches are chargeable; with the Neat Total Amount of all the several Branches payable, as well from those Rates, as from the Values upon Oath, &c for all Foreign Goods and Merchandize Imported, not only by British Subjects, but by Strangers; and also The Neat Total Amount of such of the said Branches as are to be Repaid, or Drawn back, in case the said Goods are afterwards Exported to Foreign Parts within Time. With The Neat Duty to be paid upon Native Commodities, and several Foreign Dying Goods Exported: Also the Duties to be paid upon Coals, Culm, and Cinders brought Coastwise, and to be Repaid if they are afterwards Exported. All Calculated to the Utmost Exactness. Together with the several Rules, Orders, &c. Annexed to the said Books of Rates. III. Directions for, and Examples of, The Method of Computing the aforesaid Duties to be Paid and Repaid; with the Drawbacks and Bounties on the Exportation of several British Goods, &c. IV. The several Ports, Members, and Creeks of Great Britain; the Lawful Keys, Wharfs, &c. and the Fees payable to the Officers of the Customs in the Port of London; with the Duties of Scavage, Package, &c payable to the said City. V. An index, wherein is comprehended the substance of the several laws now in force, relating to the Customs, &c. The Whole being A Complete System of His Majesty's Revenue of Customs. B Henry Crouch, Of the Custom-House, London.
Crouch, Henry d. 1732.Date: 1738- E-books
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Tables of the net duties payable , and drawbacks allowed on certain goods, wares and merchandize, imported, exported, or carried coastwise. Together with a list of the bounties. Published under the inspection of Mr. Edward-James Mascall, of the Custom-House, London. To which are added, a table of the duties, Allowances, Bounties and Drawbacks in the excise; together with the licences necessary to he taken out by those Persons dealing in exciseable Commodities and an alphabetical arrangement of the various stamp-duties in Great Britain. The whole agreeable to the Consolidation-Act of the ayth of George III.
Date: 1787- E-books
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A survey of the British Customs; containing the rates of merchandize as established by 12 Car.II.c.4, 11 Geo.I.c.7, and other statutes; with tables of the Net Duties, Drawbacks, Bounties, &c. payable thereon, Under all Circumstances of Importation and Exportation. Also A Distinct and Practical Account of The several Branches of the Revenue called the Customs. With an appendix, containing an abstract of all the laws now in force relative to the Customs. The whole continued to the End of the Session of 9 Geo. III. By Samuel Baldwin, of the Custom-House, London
Date: 1770