did not exceed 20,000 lbs. £. 2 0 0 Above 20,000, and under 30,000 3 0 0 30,000 40,000 4 0 0 40,000 50,000 5 0 0 50,000 60,000 6 0 0 60,000 70,000 7 0 0 70,000 80,000 8 0 0 80,000 90,000 9 0 0 90,000 100,000 10 0 0 100,000 120,000 12 0 0 120,000 150,000 15 0 0 150,000 ------ 20 0 0
Every person who shall first become a manufacturer of tobacco or snuff, shall pay for every such licence 2_l._, and within ten days after the 10th of October next, after taking out such licence, such further additional sum as, with the said 2_l._, shall amount to the duty hereinbefore directed to be paid, according to the quantity of tobacco and snuff-work weighed for manufacture.
And every dealer in tobacco and snuff shall take out a licence in like manner, for which he shall pay within the liberties of the chief office in London 5_s._, elsewhere 2_s._ 6_d._ (43 Geo. III. c. 69.) But persons licensed as manufacturers who shall not sell tobacco in a less quantity than four pounds, nor snuff than two pounds, need not be licensed as dealers. (29 Geo. III.)
Every person who shall manufacture or deal in tobacco or snuff without taking out such licence, or shall not renew the same ten days at least before the end of the year, shall forfeit, if a manufacturer 200_l._, and if a dealer 50_l._
Persons in partnership need not take out more than one licence for one house. Every manufacturer and dealer shall make entry in writing of his house or place intended to be made use of for manufacturing, keeping, or selling tobacco or snuff, three days previous to his beginning, on pain of forfeiting 200_l._, and also the tobacco and snuff there found, together with the casks and package which may be seized by the officers of the customs or excise.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SMOKING AND SNUFF-TAKING, EXEMPLIFIED IN A GRAVE DISSERTATION, DEDICATED TO THE YOUTH OF THE RISING GENERATION.
What soothes the peasant when his toil is done? He cheerly sits beside his cottage door, In the sweet light of ev'ning's parting sun, His young ones sporting o'er the sanded floor:--
What cheers the seaman, when the fight is won, And vict'ry smiles upon our naval band? Toiling no longer at the murd'rous gun, His thoughts are proudly of his native land.