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... intituled , ' An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and
plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback ... to take into consideration the
duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his Majesty's
dominions ...
... intituled , ' An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and
plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback ... to take into consideration the
duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his Majesty's
dominions ...
Page 8
... duty on wine as loudly as they do now for the repeal of the duty on tea . Sir , I
can give no security on this subject . But I will do all that I can , and all that can be
fairly demanded . To the experience which the honorable gentleman reprobates
...
... duty on wine as loudly as they do now for the repeal of the duty on tea . Sir , I
can give no security on this subject . But I will do all that I can , and all that can be
fairly demanded . To the experience which the honorable gentleman reprobates
...
Page 10
To this support the act assigns six branches of duties . About two years after this
act passed , the ministry , I mean the present ministry , thought it expedient to
repeal five of the duties , and to leave ( for reasons best known to themselves )
only ...
To this support the act assigns six branches of duties . About two years after this
act passed , the ministry , I mean the present ministry , thought it expedient to
repeal five of the duties , and to leave ( for reasons best known to themselves )
only ...
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Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea - duty had
perished in the general wreck ? Here , Mr. Speaker , is a precious mockery : - a
preamble without an act , - taxes granted in order to be repealed , - and the
reasons ...
Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea - duty had
perished in the general wreck ? Here , Mr. Speaker , is a precious mockery : - a
preamble without an act , - taxes granted in order to be repealed , - and the
reasons ...
Page 13
It was impossible it should : because every man , in the least acquainted with the
detail of commerce , must know that several of the articles on which the tax was
repealed were fitter objects of duties than almost any other articles that could ...
It was impossible it should : because every man , in the least acquainted with the
detail of commerce , must know that several of the articles on which the tax was
repealed were fitter objects of duties than almost any other articles that could ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1881 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 26 Apr 2013 |
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