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<DATE>2014-07-28</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140640.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Rea&s;ons humbly offered to the Honourable the Hou&s;e of <HI>COMMONS,</HI> why new Impo&s;itions &s;hould not be laid upon Bra&s;s-Wire and Tin-Plates.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. IT will greatly prejudice the Woollen Manufacture, which is &s;ent out for the&s;e Commodities; e&s;pecially from <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> no Money being paid for Bra&s;s Wire, but Cloth, and other Woollen Ma|nufactures only; which, by this new Im|po&s;ition, will, in all probability, be di&s;coura|ged, or prohibited by the King of <HI>Sweden:</HI> As it happened in <HI>Portugal,</HI> upon our laying a great Impo&s;ition upon <HI>Lisbon</HI>-Sugars, that Go|vernment prohibiting <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Cloth: So that whereas there was before that 50000 <HI>l.</HI> in Cloth &s;ent yearly thither, there has not been &s;ince one Cloth &s;old.</P>
<P N="2">II. Becau&s;e there is none of either of tho&s;e Commodities made in <HI>England,</HI> therefore it cannot be any Encouragement to our own Manufacturies.</P>
<P N="3">III. It will greatly impoveri&s;h, if not quite ruine two con&s;iderable Handy-Crafts, Pin-ma|kers, and Tin-plate-workers: And the great quantities of Pins and Tin-Wares, which are now daily exported, will by this Advance be ob&s;tructed, and our foreign Trade put into the Hands of the <HI>Dutch;</HI> more Tin-Ware be|ing exported than is u&s;ed in <HI>England.</HI></P>
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