the said Revenue in America, have resolved to
give and grant unto Your
Majesty the several Rates and Duties herein after mentioned; and do most
humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by
the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and
after
the Twenty ninth day of September, One Thousand seven hundred and
six-
ty four, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto
His Majesty,
His heirs and Successors, for and upon all White or Clayed Sugars of the
Produce or Manufacture of any Colony or Plantation in
America, not under
the Dominion of His Majesty, His heirs and Successors; for and upon
In-
digo, and Coffee of Foreign Produce or Manufacture; for and upon all
Wines (except French Wine;) for and upon all Wrought Silks,
Bengals,
and Stuffs, mixed with Silk or Herba of the
Manufacture of Persia, Chi-
na, or East-India, and all Callico painted, dyed, printed, or stained there;
and for and upon all Foreign Linen Cloth called Cambrick and
French Lawns,
which shall be imported or brought into any Colony or Plantation in
America,
which now is, or hereafter may be, under the Dominion of His Majesty,
His Heirs and Successors, the several Rates and Duties following; that is
to say,
For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of such Foreign White or Clay-
ed Sugars, One Pound, Two Shillings, over and above all other Duties
imposed by any former Act of Parliament.
For every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of such Foreign Indico, Six
Pence.
For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of such Foreign Coffee, which
shall be imported from any Place, except Great-Britain, Two Pounds,
Nineteen Shillings, and Nine Pence.
For every Ton of Wine of the Growth of the
Madeiras, or of any other
Island or Place from whence such Wine may be lawfully imported, and
which shall be so imported from such Islands or places, the Sum of Seven
Pounds
For every Ton of Portugal, Spanish,
or any other Wine (except French
Wine) imported from Great-Britain, the Sum of Ten
Shillings.
For every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of Wrought Silks, Bengals, and
Stuffs, mixed Silk or Herba, of the Manufacture of
Persia, China,
or East-India,
imported from Great-Britain, Two Shillings.
For every Piece of Callico painted, dyed, printed,
or stained, in Persia,
China, or
East-India, imported
from Great-Britain, Two shillings and
Six Pence.
For every piece of Foreign Linen Cloth, called Cambrick,
imported from
Great-Britain,
Three Shillings.
For every Piece of French Lawn imported from Great-Britain, Three
Shillings.
And after those Rates for any greater or lesser Quantity of such Goods
respectively.
And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from
and after the said Twenty ninth Day of September, One thousand
seven hun-
dred and sixty four, there shall also be raised, levied, collected, and
paid,
unto His Majesty, His Heirs and
Successors, for and upon all Coffee and
Pimento of the Growth and Produce of any British Colony or
Plantation in
America, which shall be there laden on Board any
British Ship or Vessel,
to be carried out from thence to any other Place whatsoever, except
Great
Britain, the several Rates and Duties following; that is to
say,