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Coal trade - Great Britain

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    The frauds and abuses of the coal-dealers detected and exposed; in a letter to an alderman of London.

    | Date: [1745]
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    Considerations on the present scarcity and high price of coals in Scotland; and on the means of procuring greater quantities at a cheaper rate. With an appendix, containing some observations on the laws relative to salt: on those Imposing a Duty on Coal Carried Coastwise; and on the laws relating to the Distillery in Scotland.

    Citizen of Edinburgh. | Date: 1793
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    The late measures of the ship-owners in the coal-trade fully examined, in a letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt.

    | Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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    An enquiry into the reasons of the advance of the price of coals, within seven years past. In which are shewn, The great Impositions laid on the several Consumers by a Monopoly of that Commodity. And some Methods proposed for destroying the Present, and preventing all Future Monopolies and Combinations in the Coal Trade.

    | Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]
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    Considerations on the nature, quality, and distinctions, of coal and culm, with inquiries, philosophical and political, into the present state of the laws, and the questions now in agitation relative to the Taxes upon these commodities. Contained in a letter from Doctor James Hutton, Physician in Edinburgh: To a friend.

    Hutton, James, 1726-1797. | Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]
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