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<HEAD>REASONS For further Additional Duties upon Paper; Shewing that &s;uch a Tax will Rai&s;e the Publick Revenue, and Improve the Manufacture of the Nation, and Employ a va&s;t Number of Poor.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Humbly Offered to the Con&s;ideration of the Honou|rable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FIr&s;t,</HI> The Impo&s;itions of Fifteen <HI>per Cent</HI> on Paper Imported, does neither An&s;wer the end of Rai&s;ing the Revenue, nor give any Incouragment to our Manufacture, tho' both de&s;ign'd; becau&s;e the Value is &s;o low in the Book of Rates, that it renders the Impo&s;ition not above Eight <HI>per Cent,</HI> all Writing and Printing Paper being only Valued at four Shillings &s;ix Pence <HI>per</HI> Rheam.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> To &s;et us on an equal Foot with the Paper makers in <HI>Germany, Genoua, Holland,</HI> &amp;c. An Impo&s;ition of 30 <HI>per Cent</HI> will be but an indifferent Medium, the &s;mallne&s;s of Mens Wages abroad, the lowne&s;s of the Rate of the Goods at the Cu&s;tom Hou&s;e, are things that make almo&s;t no Impo&s;ition a Clog to the Importation of Paper; but affords the Merchants a Power to Undermine a Trade that would Contribute &s;o much to the Intere&s;t of the Na|tion.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> Whatever is pretended of the Hard&s;hips and Di&s;couragments Printing would receive; If Con&s;idered, can have no Weight, &s;ince an Impo&s;ition of 30 <HI>per Cent,</HI> cannot advance the Price of a Book worth Three Shillings, above Two Pence; be&s;ides the having an Impo&s;ition on all Books Printed abroad and brought in, will be a means to prevent all Copies of any Value, from being Printed there, and prove a Law to protect Property; and far from Di&s;couraging, would Incourage Printing.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> Was Incouragment given to the making of Paper here, no Objections would be made as to the Incapacity of our Paper makers &s;upplying the common Calls for it, &s;ince a great many of them are forced to turn their Mills to the making brown Paper (to the Ruine of that Employ al&s;o) becau&s;e their Profits is rendred &s;o Incon&s;iderable by the Cheapne&s;s of Foreign Paper.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly,</HI> It is pretended that the pre&s;ent Duties bring in more than the Additional Tax; but it is at the &s;ame time forgot what large Quantities of Paper w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e brought in be|fore the Act took place; and how &s;oon the Act expired, that the Stock of Paper then in the Kingdom, almo&s;t &s;erved to outla&s;t the continuance of the Duty.</P>
<P><HI>Sixthly,</HI> It is in&s;inuated that Reque&s;ting more Impo&s;itions on Paper, is &s;elf Intere&s;t; this indeed may be ju&s;tly laid at their Door who oppo&s;e &s;uch a Bill, &s;ince nothing could per&s;uade but what is very Selfi&s;h and Intere&s;ted again&s;t a thing that mu&s;t be of &s;o great Advantage to the Nation, as this and all Manufacturs at Home are, &s;ince they ever turn'd the Ballance on our &s;ide.</P>
<P>After all the Advantages the Nation would receive by having this Manufacture, it is Peculiar there remains one more of no le&s;s Con&s;equence, which is the Employing &s;o mighty a Number of Poor as this does and will do.</P>
<P><HI>Tis therefo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> humbly hoped, the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons will think it nece&s;&s;ary to by an Additional Duty on all Foreign Paper, for the Encouragment of &s;o many Hundred of Families of His Maje&s;ty's Subjects, who&s;e Livelyhoods depend upon the Poper Trade, and which will turn to the Honour as well as Intere&s;t of the Nation, and &s;o much may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e really brought in for the Service of the Publick.</HI></P>
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<P>REASONS For laying Duties on Foreign Paper.</P>
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