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Section II Every Hundred Weight of Coffee imported £5. 12s.; and of Cocoa Nuts imported £8. 8s.; and of Tea imported, 5s.; and for every Pound of Chocolate 6d.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

And to the end the Duty thereby ariseing to your Majestyes may be brought in with little Charge or Trouble Bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That from and after the five and twentyeth day of December one thousand six hundred eighty nine the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned shall be collected and received by your Majestyes Officers at the Custome house upon Coffee-Berries Tea in the Leafe and Cacao Nutts and alsoe upon Chocolate ready made being the materialls from which the said Liquors are now extracted brewed or made and according to such proportions as are hereafter mentioned over and besides what is now paid or payable for the said Commodities X1at the Custome house for the same that is to say upon every hundred weight of Coffee imported into any Ports within this Kingdome Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede accounting one hundred and twelve pounds to the Hundred five pounds twelve shillings and upon every hundred weight of Cacao-Nutts imported and containing as aforesaid eight pounds eight shillings and upon every X2hundred weight of Tea imported five shillings and upon every pound weight of Chocolate ready made imported five shillings and soe proportionably for any greater or lesser quantity of any the Commodities aforesaid respectively

Annotations

Editorial notes

X1

interlined on the Roll.

X2

Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: pound O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]