# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Preamble.

ANNO REGNI VICESIMO QUARTO Seſſ. 2.

WHEREAS, by ſeveral Acts of Parlia-
ment heretofore made, and now in Force,
ſundry Rates and Duties were granted
upon Low Wines and Spirits made in
Great Britain for Home Conſumption:
And whereas, in and by the ſaid Acts for
granting ſuch Rates and Duties, and by ſeveral other
Acts made for preventing Frauds and Abuſes in the Col-
lection and Payment thereof, divers Proviſions and Di-
rections for or in relation to the managing, ſecuring, aſ-
certaining and collecting the ſaid Rates and Duties
were made and enacted: And whereas great Inconveni-
encies have ariſen from the Mode of charging and col-
lecting the ſaid Rates and Duties; and the Powers,
Rules, and Regulations, in and by the ſaid ſeveral Acts
made, provided, or contained, for the preventing of Frauds
and Abuſes, have been found ineffectual: For Remedy
whereof, and in order to maintain Your Majeſty's Reve-
nues, and to ſecure a proper and ſufficient Fund towards
paying the ſeveral Incumbrances on the ſaid Rates and
Duties, we, Your Majeſty's moſt dutiful and loyal Sub-
jects, the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament
aſſembled, think it will be for the Advantage of the Pub-
lick to diſcontinue the Payment of the ſaid Rates and
Duties upon Low Wines and Spirits, for a limited Time,
and, in lieu thereof, to grant to Your Majeſty, for the
ſame limited Time, the ſeveral Rates and Duties herein-
after mentioned; and alſo that further Regulations ſhould
be provided and enacted for the better collecting thereof;
and do therefore 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 Parliament aſſembled, and by the Autho-
rity of the ſame, That, for and during the Space of
Two Years, to be computed from the Firſt Day of No-
vember, One thouſand ſeven hundred and eighty-four, all
the Rates and Duties granted and impoſed upon Low
Wines and Spirits for Home Conſumption, in and by
any Act or Acts heretofore made, and now in Force, ſhall be

[margin:] From Nov. 1, 1784, the Du- ties on Low Wines and Spirits for Home Con- sumption, shall be dis- continued for Two Years.

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