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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140637.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>REASONS</HI> Humbly offered by the Soap makers of the City of <HI>London</HI> to the Honourable the Hou&s;e of Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled against a Duty to be laid upon Soap.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1&s;t.</HI> THat the Exci&s;e of Soap in the time of the late Civil Wars amounted but to about 7000 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> after all Char|ges of Collecting paid.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2dly.</HI> That &s;ince the pre&s;ent War with <HI>France,</HI> the Exci&s;e of Soap being di&s;cour&s;ed of, it was thought more convenient to lay a Duty upon the Commodities it was made of, they being more ea&s;ie to col|lect at the Cu&s;tome Hou&s;e, and accordingly a great Duty was laid upon the Ingredients of which Soap is made, to the value of about a half peny <HI>per</HI> pound (being 10 <HI>s. per</HI> Barrel) by rea&s;on whereof, and of the pre&s;ent War, the Commodities are &s;o dear, that the Trade of Soap is much decayed in <HI>London,</HI> for that in many Counties e&s;pe|cially the North and We&s;t, the Chandlers and others privately make Cake Soap, Ball Soap, and white Soap of Wood and Fern A&s;hes and Kitchen-&s;tuff, and the like, which much le&s;&s;ens the &s;ale of Soap in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. That if any Exci&s;e be laid upon Soap it will cau&s;e many Peo|ple to make Soap in private, which will much le&s;&s;en the Revenue, and tend to the Ruin of tho&s;e that hone&s;tly pay the Duty.</P>
<P N="4">4. That Soap in <HI>London,</HI> being made of Olive Oyl and foreign Pot-a&s;hes, and Tallow, which Commodities are the return of Fi&s;h, Cloath, Lead, Tin, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> A new Duty will make Soap &s;o very dear, that the &s;ale of it will be much le&s;&s;ened, and con&s;equently the Exportation of the&s;e Commodities will be very much le&s;&s;ened al&s;o.</P>
<P N="5">5. That if a Duty be laid upon Soap it will &s;ubject the Soap-makers to great grievance, by Officers continually Night and Day di&s;turbing their Hou&s;es, as is well remembred by &s;ome Soap-makers, who were Traders in the time of the late Civil Wars.</P>
<P N="6">6. That there being already great Duties laid upon the Ingre|dients, Soap is made of, as afore&s;aid, if an Exci&s;e be now laid on Soap it will be taxing the Labouring and Manufacturing of the Commodity, and a great Grievance to great numbers of poor Peo|ple, who depend upon the &s;aid Trade, and tho&s;e that u&s;e Soap, and what is got by the will in great mea&s;ure be lo&s;t by the other.</P>
<P N="7">7. That the Multitude of Officers nece&s;&s;ary to look after this Du|ty in all parts of <HI>England</HI> will be &s;uch a very great charge and lyable to &s;o much corruption that the Duty will &s;ignifie very little to the ends for which it is de&s;igned.</P>
<P><HI>Which</HI> Rea&s;ons <HI>con&s;idered it is humbly hoped this Honourable Hou&s;e will be plea&s;ed to lay a&s;ide an Exci&s;e upon Soap.</HI></P>
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<P>Again&s;t laying a Duty upon Soap.</P>
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