The present state of the British customs. Containing, I. A table of all the duties at present payable on poundage goods imported; shewing the rates, the gross and net amounts of each branch of duty, the discounts allowed for prompt payment, and the total net duties by British and strangers. II. A table of all the duties at present payable on tonnage goods imported, shewing in like manner the gross and net amounts of the several branches of duty, the discounts allowed, and the total net duties to be paid by British and strangers. III. A concise table of drawbacks, shewing what branches and parts of branches are repaid on re-exportation of any goods and merchandizes imported. IV. A table of duties payable of all goods and merchandizes exported: with a list of goods prohibited to be exported. V. A table of the bounties and drawbacks of excise allowed on goods of British manufacture and product exported, and also of the prm̆iums allowed on certain species of foreign goods and merchandize imported. VI. The appropriation of the several branches of the revenue of the customs. Being the only complete system of duties extant. Wherein are comprehended all alterations and additions to the sessions 1753, the defects of all former books on this subject are supplied. The whole calculated with the utmost accuracy and precision, and digested in such a perspicuous method, that the origin of the duties, the method of computation, and the total net duties on every article of goods appear at one sing inspection. To which are added, a table of the duties on merchandize imported into France, and a compendious view of the weights, measures, coins, and exchange of the chief trading cities and countries in Europe. By T. Daniel, late deputy comptroller of the customs at Sunderland, and author of Ductor mercatorius.
Daniel, T. | Date: M,DCC,LII. [1752]