A calculate of tobacco imported in the port of London, with the respective losses of custom. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18443 of text R224743 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB 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 B18443 Wing C276 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.14[18] ESTC R224743 ocm99885628

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 eng Tobacco -- Early works to 1800. Customs administration -- England -- Early works to 1800. Smuggling -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo A calculate of tobacco imported in the port of London, with the respective losses of custom. . n/a 1694 1 414 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. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Calculate of TOBACCO Imported in the Port of London , with the respective Losses of Custom .

THE TOBACCO Imported from the Fifth of November , 1688. to the Thirtieth of November , 1693. was ( viz. ) for the Year 1689 14392635     1690 12638027     1691 14830503     1692 13423464     1693 19866048   Total Imported in Five Years 75150677 at 5 d . per l. Duty 1565639 02 01 The Medium for One Year is 15030135⅔ 313127 16 05 If two Thirds of all Imported be again Exported , the remainder to be consumed at home is 5010045 which comes to 104375 18 09½ If 1 / 10th be smuggled that pays no Duty , the Duty comes to   31312 15 07½ If the Damage allowed that pays no Duty be consumed with the sound , it hinders the consumption of so much as would , which if but 1 / 14th part , that is 10735811 / 14 and comes to 22366 05 05 If the Stalks are ⅕ of what is consumed , they hinder the consumption of so much , that is 1002009 and comes to 20875 03 09 The burning the Stalks , will occasion the Importation of ⅓ more of Tobacco in Stalk than they amounted to , which for 1002009 is 1202410 , which makes in money 25050 l. 4 s . 2 d . and encreases the Revenue 1202410 4175 00 09 But if the Damage be shipt off by Certificate , and draw back 4½ d . per Pound , there will be defrauded 4½ d . for every such Pound , the prevention whereof will improve the Revenue 9 / 10th of 22366 l. 5 s . 5 d . which comes to   20130 04 06 If the Damage be relanded , and shipt off again , as is too frequently practised , it draws the same Sum Toties Quoties     If the Stalks are spun into Roll , and Exported to draw back by Debenture , the loss to the Revenue thereby comes to 9/10ths   22545 00 00 Besides , the Advantage which will be gained by Importing in Hogsheads , Casks and Bundles , as proposed   50000 And what will be saved by the Draw-back from Guernsey , &c.   25000   Total 196404 l. 10 s . ½

This Calculation is only for the Port of LONDON .