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Saltpetre Act 1800

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1800 c. 38
Year1800
Anno Regni GEORGII III. tricesimo nono & quadragesimo. An Act for repealing so much of an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled,An Act for permitting certain Goods imported from the East Indies to be warehoused, and for repealing the Duties now payable thereon, and granting other Duties in lieu thereof ; as relates to Saltpetre.

(39 & 40 Geo. 3) C A P. XXXVIII.

[16th May 1800]

'WHEREAS by an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, East Indies , Provision is made for Warehousing any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes, except Tea, Cotton, Wool, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, and Cinnamon, and Bullion, Diamonds, and other precious Stones, upon Importation and Landing thereof, by the United Company of Merchants ofEngland trading to the East Indies , in Manner therein mentioned, and upon Payment of the new and additional Duties of Customs in the said Act mentioned: And whereas it is expedient that Saltpetre should be exempted from the Operation of the said recited Act, and from the Duty thereby imposed thereon;' be it therefore 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 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said recited Act, so far as it relates to Saltpetre, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that the Duty thereby imposed on Saltpetre shall cease and determine; and that, from and after the passing of this Act, all Saltpetre, which shall remain, or be unsold, in the Warehouses of the said United Company, and all Saltpetre hereafter imported by the said United Company, shall be subject and liable to the same Rules, Regulations, and Provisions, and charged and chargeable with the same Duties as were in force immediately before the passing of the said recited Act; the said Act, or any Thing therein contained, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

S-II Duty on Saltpetre in Warehouse...

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