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 eng Tariff on paper -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Stationery trade -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offer'd to the honourable House of Commons, against laying a farther duty upon paper . n/a 1689 4 641 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. 2014-06 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
REASONS Humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of COMMONS , AGAINST Laying a farther Duty upon PAPER .

TO lay a Duty upon Home-made Paper will greatly discourage the Manufacture of it in England , whatever may be represented to the contrary by Private Persons , for their own Ends. Experience shews , That the greatest part of this Duty will be spent in the Salaries of Commissioners and other Officers to levy it . The Value of all the Paper made in the Kingdom not amounting to above 30000 l. per Ann.

As to Forein Paper , ( altho the High Duty of 25 l. per Cent . be now expired ) 't is still extreamly Dear : the true Reason of which is this , There being now a Duty of 60l . per Cent . upon French Paper , and the Dutch using that Paper themselves , which they buy at a Low Rate , do sell us their own at a very great Price ; well knowing , that we cannot Import French Paper , without paying a Duty of 45 l. per Cent . more than we do for theirs .

The Dearness of Paper is the only occasion that a great Number of Voluminous and Useful Books , in many Sciences , now ready for the Press , cannot be Printed ; to the great Discouragement of Trade , as well as of Industry and Learning , very many of the Profession being forc'd to employ themselves on trivial Pamphlets . And if a farther Duty should be laid upon Paper , it is too visible , that the Dutch will certainly carry away the best part of the Trade of Printing from us ; towards which they have already made so great a Progress ; by reason that French Paper ( which is most proper for Printing ) imported into Holland , pays no more Duty than One Penny per Ream : and supposing the intended farther Duty of 30l . per Cent . be laid upon it , we shall pay above 4s . per Ream for the same : So that no use can be made in England of French Paper , unless , instead of loading it with Additional Duties , which conveys all the Profit of it to the Dutch , it shall be thought reasonable to reduce the Duty to that upon all other Forein Paper ; by which the English will still pay Two Shillings for what the Dutch pay but One Penny .

Therefore 't is humbly hoped , that this Honourable House will consider , how destructive the intended Duty will inevitably be to the Manufactures of Paper and Printing in England , to the total Ruine of a great Number of Families , whose sole Dependence is upon the Paper-Trade , which hath already suffered so much by the Scarcity and Dearness of Paper . And that your Honours will be pleased , either wholly to lay aside the said intended Duty , or else to allow Paper to be imported from all Parts beyond the Seas at an equal Duty .

Note , That two Thirds of the Paper used for Printing and Common Writing , which is rated in our Book of Rates at 4 s . 6 d . per Ream , doth cost beyond Sea no more than from 1 s . 3 d . to 3 s . per Ream .

The whole Produce of the Paper-Duty , from March 1. 1696 , to March 1. 1698 , came but to 16848 l. 10 s . 9 d about one Third whereof was collected upon the Stock which was in the Hands of Tradesmen before and at the time when the Act pass'd .

REASONS AGAINST Laying a farther Duty upon Paper .