A vindication of the conduct of the Ministry, in the scheme of the excise on wine and tobacco, proposed last sessions of Parliament. With a general examination of the reasons which determined the said ministry to it; the consequences and events it would have had.

Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A vindication of the conduct of the Ministry, in the scheme of the excise on wine and tobacco, proposed last sessions of Parliament. With a general examination of the reasons which determined the said ministry to it; the consequences and events it would have had. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I Nation Without Supplies ; and it is for that Realon, that Cuftom-houfe Officers are appointed to colled! the Duties of Import, and the Offi¬ cers of Excile to receive the Du¬ ties of fuch Goods and Commo¬ dities which are vended and con- fumed within the Realm : But the Power of the latter is neither of greater Extent, nor more abfolute within their Diftridls than that of the former. The Cuftom-Houfe Officer has Power to vifit, fearch, rummage, and open all the Cup- bords, Trunks, or Lurking Places of a Ship, before any Thing can be taken or landed out of it. In the Laws of Excife, the Mer¬ chant, whole Commodities are li¬ able to this Law, mull put them in a certain Place which the Ex¬ cile Officer is impowered to learch, in the lame Manner as the Cu¬ ftom-houfe Officer, can vifit a Ship • the Retailer,or Merchant of Commo¬ dities
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