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<HEAD><HI>PROPOSALS, SHEWING</HI> How a <HI>Duty</HI> on<HI>SUGARS,</HI> Impo&s;ed by an Act Expiring in <HI>June</HI> next, may be Continued, and made no Burthen to the Plantations.</HEAD>
<P>IF the Act Impo&s;ing a Duty on Sugars goes off the Twenty fourth of <HI>June</HI> next, which unle&s;s revived this Se&s;&s;ion it will, a con&s;iderable Part of the Revenue will fall off; and &s;ince the Cau&s;e of it proceeds from a tender Regard to the Plantations; It's Humbly Propo&s;ed,</P>
<P>That the two Shillings four Pence <HI>per Cent.</HI> Impo&s;t Duty, on Mu&s;covado or Brown Sugars, be permitted to go off only.</P>
<P>By the Remove of this two Shillings four Pence Duty, all the Plantations who Import Mu&s;covado Sugars, will be ea&s;ed, and they are <HI>Jamaica, Nevis, Antego, Mon&s;erat, St. Chri&s;to|phers</HI> and <HI>Berbadoes,</HI> the&s;e being all the Sugar I&s;lands we have, and who Import Mu&s;covado Sugars only, being the fir&s;t Product, <HI>Barbadoes</HI> only excepted, who Import about a fourth part of the Sugar of that one I&s;land Purged or Clayed.</P>
<P>This Ea&s;e being given to our Plantations where the Duty is only a Burthen, and the For|reign Buyer hereby deprived of 2 <HI>s.</HI> 4 <HI>d.</HI> Draw-back, which hath been a very great Motive to them to Export Mu&s;covado Sugars on Forreign Bottoms to be Manufactured out of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>The Duty on all White Sugar, and Sugar fit for u&s;e, continued as now it &s;tands, will Pre&s;erve a Revenue to the King, and not le&s;&s;en the quantities of Clayed Sugars imported: For, as it always hath been at the Choice of the Clayers whether they Import their Sugars in Mu&s;covado or Clayed, yet have they hitherto Imported Clayed, notwith&s;tanding this Duty was upon it.</P>
<P>But it may be Objected,<LB> That the Duty of two Shillings four Pence being removed, and this Duty continued, will Induce them to Import their Sugars in Mu&s;covado: It is An&s;wered,</P>
<P>This were to be Wi&s;hed rather than its Hoped, for the Plantations and the Kingdom in its Trade and Navigation would fare the Better for it.</P>
<P>But if it can be &s;uppo&s;ed that the Quantity of Clayed Sugars in its Importations will be hereby abated, the Revenue will &s;uffer little by it, &s;ince the Imports of Mu&s;covado Sugars in its Quantitities will be &s;o Augmented thereby, that the le&s;&s;er Duty on that will amount to near, if not altogether as much as the greater on the Clayed.</P>
<P>But if the Act Expires the Twenty Fourth of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">une</HI> next, and goes entirely off, The Se|cond and Third &s;orts of Clayed (termed) Sugars, fit for U&s;e, and which many times &s;ells for double the Price of Mu&s;covado, will be Imported at the &s;ame Duty as Mu&s;covado: No Notice being taken of tho&s;e &s;orts in the Book of Rates, there being none Imported when it was made.</P>
<P>This will put the Clayer upon Importing tho&s;e &s;orts only, avoiding thereby the Duty of White, which is Five Shillings, by making them a little Inferiour, and &s;o the King will have but one Duty upon all &s;orts of Sugars, Claying of Sugar greatly le&s;&s;ening the Quantities, and con&s;e|quently
<PB REF="2">the Duty; and which is a greater Mi&s;chief, the <HI>Navigation.</HI></P>
<P>That the Gentlemen Intere&s;ted in Claying of Sugars are but few in Number, tho' a fourth part of <HI>Barbadoes</HI> in their Hands, and have great E&s;tates, &s;ome of them not &s;o little as three Thou&s;and Pounds <HI>per Annum,</HI> all Charges paid; and it &s;eems Ju&s;t and Equal they &s;hould con|tinue the Duty (Contentedly) towards the Charge of the War, &s;ince this War is made much more Expen&s;ive, by Maintaining many Men of War, Winter and Summer, to Protect and Pre&s;erve their great E&s;tates, as well as the re&s;t of the I&s;lands.</P>
<P>It will look very &s;evere that the Nation &s;hould be Taxed to &s;upply this Revenue going off, when the&s;e Gentlemen in a very Profitable Trade &s;hall be Excu&s;ed, being &s;o well able that there are but very few Claying Planters in <HI>Barbadoes</HI> but keep their Coaches, and very ma|ny keep Coaches and &s;ix Hor&s;es, and live in as great Splendor, and have as great Attend|ance in Livery, as many Noble Men in the Kingdom.</P>
<P>This is not mentioned from any Envy to their Greatne&s;s, may they be as Great as their Hearts can de&s;ire, &s;o it be not to make the Intere&s;t of the Nation in its Trade, Navigation and Plantations, <HI>very little and poor.</HI></P>
<P>And as it is of ab&s;olute Nece&s;&s;ity that a Phy&s;itian mu&s;t know where the Di&s;ea&s;ed Part lyes e're he can adapt a Remedy, &s;o in this Political Body or Intere&s;t it's nece&s;&s;ary to Point to the aggriev|ed Part and the &s;ound al&s;o, lea&s;t the Remedy be mi&s;applyed. To Conclude, the Mu&s;covado Im|porters &s;tand in the Intere&s;t of the Nation, and with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion ought to be Pre&s;erved and Che|ri&s;hed, and they cannot be better Provided for than by Encouraging the Refining of Sugars in the Kingdom, for thereby are their Buyers multiplyed, and that makes a good Market for them; and without this it would be very hard that they &s;hould be enjoyned, as by the Act of Navigation they are, to bring their Sugars to <HI>England,</HI> and yet to have no Demand there for them, but what the Forreign Buyer makes for Exportation.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. A&s;twood.</HI> 1693.</P>
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