Direct copy from gbooks from
THE
Statute* at Harge,
FROM
MAGNA CHARTA,
i
TO THE END OF THE
Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain,
Anno 1761.
CAP. CXXXVIII.
An act to repeal part of the excise countervailing duty on Irish hops imported; for granting an excise countervailing duty on the importation of Irish window-glass; and to exempt tiles made for tlie purpose of draining lands, from the duties of excise.—[July 22, 1806.]
WHEREAS by an act made in the forty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for re- 4i 0.3. c. 94. ducing the duty of excise on hops, the growth of Great Britain,it was enacted, that one lialfpenny of the duty of excise of two-pence halfpenny the pound-weigltt avoirdupois, granted by an act passed in the forty-third year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to repeal the duties of excise payable in Great Britain, and 43 G.j. «.'<9. to grant other duties in lieu thereof, on hops the growth of Great Britain, should cease and determine: and whereas it is expedient that the countervailing duties of excise imposed by the said last mentioned act on Irish hops imported from Ireland into Great Britain, should also be reduced; be it therefore enacted, by the One halfKing's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and con- ^JUJ^f u*e sent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this j Qf present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, excise of That, from and after the passing of this act, one halfpenny of z\d. per lb. the countervailing duty of excise of two-pence halfpenny the granted on pound-weight avoirdupois, granted by the said act of the forty- J!^ 'J^"^^11 third year of the reign of his present Majesty, on Irish hops jnto Great imported from Ireland into Great Britain, shall cease and Britain, shall determine. ceMe
If you got through that then well done. There is also something about Irish glass if anyone is interested. They don't mention the site down the docks that sank the banks though.