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Vectigalium systema: or, a complete view of that part of the revenue of Great Britain, commonly called Customs. Wherein I. The several branches of that revenue are distinctly treated of, and Explain'd by Examples. II. The Manner and Method of Computing both in the Customhouses, and at the Waterside, are Demonstrated; With Rules, Directions, and Variety of Tables, for the more certain and expeditious Operations. III. The Rates of all Merchandizes Inwards, and the Net Duties to be Paid or Secured at Importation, or Drawnback on Exportation in Time, on all Goods whatsoever, both Rated and Unrated, are exactly and carefully Calculated, with References respectively for Working and Proving them; And likewise the Rates and Duties payable Outwards and Coastwise. IV. The laws relative to the customs, navigation, and trade, are abstracted under proper heads in Alphabetical Order; With Lists of Goods Prohibited to be Imported or Exported, and of the Legal Ports, Members, and Creeks in Great Britain, a Table of Fees, and several other useful Tables. The Whole Digested in a Plain and Easie Method for the Benefit of the Officers of the Customs, and of all concern'd in Trade. By William Edgar, Inspector General of the Ports in North Britain.
Edgar, William, inspector general of the ports in North-Britain.Date: [1714]- Books
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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]- Books
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An additional book of rates of goods and merchandizes usually imported, and not particularly rated in the book of rates referred to in the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the second. With rules, orders and regulations, signed by the Right Honourable Spencer Compton, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- 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 Merchandizes 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, Continued to the End of the Session of Parliament, Anno Tertio Georgii Secundi. The second edition: With such Alterations, Additions and Improvements, as have made it much more Useful than the Former. By Henry Crouch, Of the Custom-House, London.
Crouch, Henry, -1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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The duties at this present time on all merchandize, digested in a new and easie method.
Date: 1714