Most important transactions of the sixth session of the first Parliament of His Majesty King George II. Anno Domini, MDCCXXXIII. [electronic resource] : Containing, I. A true copy of the excise-bill, intitled, a bill for repealing several subsidies, and an impost now payable on tobacco of the British plantations; and for granting an inland duty in ink thereof. II. The Right Hon. John Barber, Esq; lord mayor of the city of London his speech to the Court of Aldermen and Common Council on the impending dangers of the excise scheme, and the petition delivered thereupon to the Parliament by the sheriffs of London the day before the excise-bill was put off. III. A list of the one and twenty court and country gentlemen, who were put up, against each other, to be chosen by ballot, to be a committee to enquire into the frauds of the customs. VI. A true state of the national debt, provided or unprovided for by Parliament, as it stood, Dec. 31, 1731, and Dec. 31, 1732. Together with the produce of the sinking fund, and to the payments of what debts contracted before Dec. 25, 1732, the same has been apply'd. Also in this pamphlet are inserted, the lords protests in the said session of Parliament. And a compleat list of all those gentlemen of the House of Commons as voted for or against the late excise-bill; in which the errors of those before published, are corrected, and justice done to the gentlemen on both sides of the question.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excise tax--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Excise tax.

Tobacco--Taxation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Tobacco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (34,[1]p., plate ) table (fold) ;

Edition:

The fifth edition, revised are corrected by a Member of Parliament who eminently distinguished himself both by voting and speaking against the bill.

Other Title:

Most important transactions of the sixth session of the first Parliament of His Majesty King George II. Anno Domini, MDCCXXXIII

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. James in the Strand, and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-sellers in town and country, (1733.)

Notes:

Pp. 33-34 are on the same side of the final leaf with the last page as its verso.

Square bracket(s) in title or imprint.

Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.

Cited in:

Kress, 4116

English Short Title Catalog, N64119.

OCLC:

508308186