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 CONTINUATION OF A

COLLECTION OF STATUTES RELATING TO

THE EAST-IŅDIA COMPANY.

50 GEORGII III. CAP. I.

An Act for continuing to His Majesty certain. Duties on Malt, Sugar, Tobacco, and Snuff, in Great Britain; and on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates in England; for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and ten. [20th February 1810.]

ND whereas by the Act, Passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for making perpetual, subject to Redemption and Purchase in the Manner therein stated, the several Sums of Money now charged in Great Britain as a Land Tax, for One Year, from the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight;" it was enacted that the several Duties imposed on Sugar by Three Acts of the Twenty-seventh, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-seventh Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, on Malt; by an Act made in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and the Duties of Excise on Tobacco and Snuff, by an Act made in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His present. Majesty, should continue in Force until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and no longer, but should from thenceforth cease and determine; unless the same should be specially continued by Parliament, which said several Duties were by an Act made and passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for continuing and granting to His Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates, in England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and certain Duties on Sugar, Malt, Tobacco, and Snuff, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine," further continued until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred, and which, by several subsequent Acts, were further continued until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nine: And whereas by, an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to repeal the Duties of Customs payable in Great Britain, and to grant other Duties in lieu thereof," the said several Duties on Sugar were repealed, and other Duties granted on Sugar in lieu thereof: And whereas by another Act, passed in the same Session of Parliament, intituled; "An Act to repeal the Duties of Excise payable in Great-Britain, and to grant other Duties in lieu thereof," certain of the said Duties on Licences to be taken out by Dealers in Tobacco and Snuf, and certain Duties on Tobacco were repealed, and other Duties granted in lieu thereof: And whereas the said Duties granted by the said last recited Acts, were continued until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and nine : And whereas the said Duties on Sugar, and the said Duties on Malt, Tobacco, and Snuff, together with the said Duties relating to Licences and Tobacco, were by an Act passed in the Forty-ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, further continued