Proposals to the Honourable House of Commons, humbly offered and presented; for the laying a tax upon raw hides, &c. By Richard Organ. Organ, Richard, fl. 1696. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53424 of text R205735 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O420A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A53424 Wing O420A ESTC R205735 99825365 99825365 29746 2240862377

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A53424) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 29746) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1766:34) Proposals to the Honourable House of Commons, humbly offered and presented; for the laying a tax upon raw hides, &c. By Richard Organ. Organ, Richard, fl. 1696. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1696] Imprint from Wing. Docket title reads: Richard Organ's proposals. 1696. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Early works to 1800. Leather industry and trade -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Proposals to the Honourable House of Commons, humbly offered and presented, for the laying a tax upon raw hides, &c. By Richard Organ. Organ, Richard, 1696 1 493 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
PROPOSALS TO The Honourable House of Commons , Humbly offered and presented , for the Laying A Tax upon Raw Hides , &c. By RICHARD ORGAN .

I. THE said Richard Organ , Humbly Proposes that a Duty be laid upon Raw-Hides , &c. and not upon Tann'd Leather , because the Charges in Collecting the said Duty will be less , and the Tanners and Fell-Mongers will be only , or chiefly concern'd to pay it , who have long since raised their Commodities , upon hearing a Tax would be laid upon them , as much as if such Tax were already laid : And by this means some of them have got considerable Estates .

II. That the Duty to be laid upon Raw-Hides , &c. continue as long as that of the Hackney Coaches , and that the Duty to be laid upon Soap be joyn'd with it , which will be a Fund for a Million and an half of Mony , and that the Duties be as follows :

III. Every Cow , Ox , Bull , Steer and Heifer Hide , fold under 20 s. or for 20 s. and no more , to any Tanner or Fell-Monger , 2 s. Duty shall be paid to the King by such Tanner or Fell-Monger , or other Person who shall buy the same ; and all such Hides as come to more than Twenty Shillings , Three Shillings Duty shall be laid upon them .

IV. Every Calves Skin Sixpence Duty , every Sheeps Skin a Penny , every Lambs Skin a Halfpenny .

V. All Bucks Skins , Goat Skins , and all Foreign Leather to be Tax'd as shall to the Honourable House appear most fit and convenient .

That in order to Collect this Duty there be an Office appointed at Leaden-Hall , and that Two Pence per Pound be allowed to the several Collectors , and One Penny per Pound to the Receiver General ; and that this Office extend to all Places within the Bills of Mortality .

That this Duty be Collected in all other Parts and Places of this Kingdom , by the Clerk of the several Markets , with the Allowances aforesaid ; and that an Office be appointed in every City , to receive such Monies by them Collected .

That all Hides , Skins , &c. so bought be entred , and a Penalty as this Honourable House shall think sit , be laid upon all Persons who shall buy such Raw-Hides , &c. without entring the same , and Paying the Duties aforesaid .

The Benefit of such Duties may appear by this , that there are great quantities of Leather Exported , and particularly Calves Skins . The King hath but a Shilling Duty for every Hundred Weight of them now , but hereby the Duty will arise to Six Shillings a Dozen .