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REASONS For further Additional Duties upon Paper ; Shewing that such a Tax will Raise the Publick Revenue , and Improve the Manufacture of the Nation , and Employ a vast Number of Poor . Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons .

FIrst , The Impositions of Fifteen per Cent on Paper Imported , does neither Answer the end of Raising the Revenue , nor give any Incouragment to our Manufacture , tho' both design'd ; because the Value is so low in the Book of Rates , that it renders the Imposition not above Eight per Cent , all Writing and Printing Paper being only Valued at four Shillings six Pence per Rheam .

Secondly , To set us on an equal Foot with the Paper makers in Germany , Genoua , Holland , &c. An Imposition of 30 per Cent will be but an indifferent Medium , the smallness of Mens Wages abroad , the lowness of the Rate of the Goods at the Custom House , are things that make almost no Imposition a Clog to the Importation of Paper ; but affords the Merchants a Power to Undermine a Trade that would Contribute so much to the Interest of the Nation .

Thirdly , Whatever is pretended of the Hardships and Discouragments Printing would receive ; If Considered , can have no Weight , since an Imposition of 30 per Cent , cannot advance the Price of a Book worth Three Shillings , above Two Pence ; besides the having an Imposition on all Books Printed abroad and brought in , will be a means to prevent all Copies of any Value , from being Printed there , and prove a Law to protect Property ; and far from Discouraging , would Incourage Printing .

Fourthly , Was Incouragment given to the making of Paper here , no Objections would be made as to the Incapacity of our Paper makers supplying the common Calls for it , since a great many of them are forced to turn their Mills to the making brown Paper ( to the Ruine of that Employ also ) because their Profits is rendred so Inconsiderable by the Cheapness of Foreign Paper .

Fifthly , It is pretended that the present Duties bring in more than the Additional Tax ; but it is at the same time forgot what large Quantities of Paper w●●e brought in before the Act took place ; and how soon the Act expired , that the Stock of Paper then in the Kingdom , almost served to outlast the continuance of the Duty .

Sixthly , It is insinuated that Requesting more Impositions on Paper , is self Interest ; this indeed may be justly laid at their Door who oppose such a Bill , since nothing could persuade but what is very Selfish and Interested against a thing that must be of so great Advantage to the Nation , as this and all Manufacturs at Home are , since they ever turn'd the Ballance on our side .

After all the Advantages the Nation would receive by having this Manufacture , it is Peculiar there remains one more of no less Consequence , which is the Employing so mighty a Number of Poor as this does and will do .

T is therefo●● humbly hoped , the Honourable House of Commons will think it necessary to by an Additional Duty on all Foreign Paper , for the Encouragment of so many Hundred of Families of His Majesty's Subjects , whose Livelyhoods depend upon the Poper Trade , and which will turn to the Honour as well as Interest of the Nation , and so much may ●e really brought in for the Service of the Publick .

REASONS For laying Duties on Foreign Paper .