Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, why a greater duty should be laid on the present stock of malt in hand, then upon other goods. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28784 of text R225150 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. 2KB 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 B28808 Wing R588U Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.13[71] ocm99885912

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 eng Malt -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Trade regulation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Malt industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, why a greater duty should be laid on the present stock of malt in hand, then upon other goo n/a 1697 1 396 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 Offered to the Honourable House of Commons , why a greater Duty should be laid on the present Stock of Malt in hand , then upon other Goods .

1. MALT being the Manufacture of Barley , which is the growth of our own Countrey , there does not appear to be any reason why a greater Duty should be laid upon it then upon any other Goods , or Commoditys whatsoever .

If Malt be supposed to be at 20 s . per . Quarter , which is the now general Price , and six Pence a Bushel ( as proposed ) be laid upon it , then the Tax will amount to 4 s for every 20 s whereas upon all other Stock in Trade , there is no more then 10 s . for every twenty Pounds .

2. The burthen of the Tax upon the stock of Malt in hand , will inevitably fall upon the Malster , for the Brewers have laid in Stocks sufficient to serve them for a considerable time ; and the Malsters will be necessitated to sell their Malt immediatly to raise Mony to pay the Tax , and the Brewers being so well stored before hand , will not buy but upon Terms very disadvantagious to the Malster , in which respect Malt is distinguished from other Goods , because they are generally sold by Retaile two Stocks laid up before hand , and therefore whatever Tax is laid upon other Goods , is pay'd by the Buyer and Consumptioner , which is not so in the Case of Malt .

3. The Case of Malt is differant from what it was at the time of the last Tax ; for then the Brewers having not laid in any great Stores before hand , were necessitated to Buy immediatly after the Duty laid upon it , which occasioned the rise of Malt at that time .

4. It will be very hard to lay such a Tax as will ruin the greatest part of the Malsters and will be but an inconsiderable Ease to the rest of the Nation .

For which Reasons it is humbly hoped that no greater Tax will be laid upon the Stock of Malt in Hand , then upon the Stock in other Trades .