Fragmentary draft of MINT00291 (Mint 19/3/444) concerning the method of calculating the Queen’s duty on East India Goods

that is, afterupon the clear value wch remains after the allowance for warehouse room & prompt paymt & the Queen real Duty arereally computed upon the clear va r imposed & really payable to the Queen arewere dedu{illeg}ct{illeg}ed: And upon this opinion supposition I proposed the followeing method of computing the Duty.

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17896. 2. 8$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$  1491. 6. 8 19387. 9. 54$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ 2533. 7 8941. 15        1192.  4. 8       10133  19  8 I received this afternoon an Order from the Co Lds Commers of her Mats. Treasyry {sic} {illeg}to send you {illeg}some time tonight a Copy or Duplicate of the Report I made a few weeks ago concerning the method of computing the Duties on unrated East India Goods. I do not remember any thin further of this matt{illeg}er then that upon being asked that Mr LowndesBeing asked my opinion about it & I told it himabout this matter by one or two friends I told it my opninion &I gave b it to him th{illeg}afterwards in writing. to one or two friends but I do & I did the like to one of the Auditors. I have no copies of any those parpers {sic}, about it, but I remember that But But I do not remember that I kept anya copiyes of those papers, but I remember that the method I proposed wwhat I wrote. But the sense was this. It seeming to me improper to call any thing a Duty wch is not really payable to the Qeen nor really imposed by Act of Parliamt, I was of opinion that I was of opinion that {sic} ye the Act of Parliament might laiyd the duties upon the clear value of the Goods after all real charges deducted & upon this supposition the {illeg} method of computing the Duty would thisI proposed the Duty may be computed in this manner by the Rules of fals Position in this manner the following method of computing the Duty // Suppose the clear value in any one case to be th 100£ & thethe Summ of all whole the Queens duties upon it to be D, & the s to the Summ of 100£ & D add the eightseventh part of this summ for (the allowance for warehouse room & prompt payment) & & you havethe whole summ will be the gross priceValue by ye candle . {illeg}This in this case.

Then say, As the gross value by the candle in this case is to the Queens DUty D in this case, so an unit to the number N & so is the gross value by the candle to the Queens duty upon it in any other case.

Therefore having multiplied the gross va once found the Number N, multiply the gross value of the Good by the number N & the product will be the Queens Duty.

The Queens Duty upon any Goods bears a certain proportion to the pricegross value by the candle wch proportion therefore being found in any one case is found in all.

To find this proportion, suppose that that the clear value in any one case is 100£ & yt the Queens whole duty or summ of all the duties Queens particular Duties upon it computed according to the rates set down byin ye Acts of Parliamt, to beare D; & to the summ of D & 100£ & D, add the seventh part thereof this summ (the allowances for warehouse room & propmpt paymt) & the whole summ will be the gross value by the candle in this case. Say therefore As this gross value is to the Queens Duty D, so is an unit to the number N, & so is the Gross value of theof any {illeg}parcel of the like East India Goods in any case to the Queens Duty in that any caseupon that parcel, & so is an unit to the number N.

Or, having once found the number N, say, Ad theTherefore Multiply the gross value of any parcel of East India goods of theat same sort, by the number N, & the Queens Duty will be the product will be the Queens Duty.

Thus the method of finding the Queens Duty is very {illeg}shirt & easy, being performed by one single multiplication. ButAnd nothing is wanting but to clear the meaning of the Act of Parliament.

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