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handle is hein.ssl/ssma0534 and id is 1 raw text is: Anno Regni Regis G E 0 R G II IL Decinmo Otavo et Nono.             145.
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Ads and Laws,
Paffed by the Great and General Court or Affembly of His Majefly's Province
of the Mafachufetts-Bay in New England : Begun and Held at Bofton upon
Wednefday the twenty-ninth -Day of May 1745.
 CHA P. I.
An A6t for granting unto His Majeffy an
Excife upon Wines and Spirits dittilled,
Sold by Retail, and upon Limes and
Lemmons.
E His Mjefly's moft loyal and dtifd Subjees, the Repre/entatives of
the Province of the MaffachudFetts-Bay, in General Court affembled, be-
ing dirous to leffen the prefent Debt of the Province, by drawing in a Number
of the Bills of Credit, have chearfidly and unanimorfly granted, and do hereby
give and grant unto His mnoj? excellent Majefy for the Ends and Ufes above-men-
tioned, and for no other Ufes, an Excife upon all Rrandy, Rum, and other Spirits
diflilled, and upon all Wines whatfocver jold by Retail, and upon Lemmons and
Limes taken in and tfed in m:iking of Punch or other Liquors mixed for Sale, or
otherwife confumed in Taverns, or other licenfed Houfes within this Province, to
be raifed, levied, colleatd, and paid by and upon every Taverner, Innholder, con-
monfi~ualler and Retailer within each re/pe1ive County, in Manner following:
aUn  be it accotinlyp enaften bp the @otrnotur, Council all Excife gran.
T)otfe of IRepretettatibes, That from and alter the twenty-ninth Day of ted for three
June, One Thoufand feven Hundred and forty five, for the Space of three Years,
Yvars, every Perfon licenfed for retailing Brandy, Rum, or other Spirits, or
Wine, fhall pay the Duties following: For every Gallon of Brandy, Rum and
Spirits dililled, three Pence , for every Gallon of Wine of every Sort, three
Pence  for cvery Hundred of Lemmons two Sbil'ings and a Penny ; for every Rates of ExIc
I lond red of Limes, nine Paice j and fo pruportionably for any other Quantity cife.
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