The present state of the manufacture of salt explained : and a new mode suggested of refining British salt ... to which is subjoined, a plan for abolishing the present duties ... on the manufacture of salt ... / [Archibald Cochrane Dundonald].
- Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The present state of the manufacture of salt explained : and a new mode suggested of refining British salt ... to which is subjoined, a plan for abolishing the present duties ... on the manufacture of salt ... / [Archibald Cochrane Dundonald]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![r [ 29 ] fatisfying the different forms required by law for intitling to drawbacks, bounties, dif- counts, &c. edly, It is expenfive in the collection ; for while the duties on fait remain, there muff neceffarily be a great number of fait officers employed to make effectual that revenue, and to guard again ft the various frauds to which it is liable, in different flages of the manufac- tory, as well as in the claims for drawbacks, bounties, and difcounts. gdly, Suppofing all the fait officers in the kingdom to be very attentive to their duty, which is perhaps more than can be expeCted from great numbers of perfons where much vigilance is requifite, without correfponding ^t officer ; ftill, from the nature of the commodity and the manufadure, and from the modes of afcertaining the duties, drawbacks, and bounties, it is liable to many impohtions and abufes; and experience proves that great quantities of fait, without paying any duties at all, can be eafily fmuggled from Ireland to the weft coaft of Great Britain, to the great prejudice of the fair trader, as well as of the public revenue. Such are the effeds of the prefent fyftem of fait duties, and of the laws made on that fub- jed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28769478_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
