To the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor< no role >
of the City of
London and the rest of His Majesty< no role >
's Justices of the Peace
for
the same City in their General Quarter Session of the Peace
Assembled
The Humble Petition of Joseph Charles< no role >
Barrow of
Twickenham
in the County of Middlesex
Oil Merchant and
Presser on behalf of himself and all the Pressers of Rape
Seed in and about the City of London
Sheweth
That by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Fifteenth Year
of the Reign of His present Majesty intituted "An Act for encouraging the
"Manufactures of Rape Oil and other Vegetable Oils, in this Kingdom by reducing,
"The Duties on Rape Seed, and other Seeds producing Oil imported from Ireland;
" And for allowing the Free Importation of Rape Cakes for Manure from Ireland
" to this Kingdom " it is enacted that from and After the First Day of August One
thousand seven hundred and seventy Five whenever the price of Middling
Pertish Rape< no role >
seed at the Ports and places where Rape Seed shall be imported
into this Kingdom shall appear according to the Methods directed by the several
Acts of parliament for ascertaining the Rates and Prices of Corn and Grain imported
to be at or above the price of Seventeen Pounds and ten shillings per Last
all Dutiesall Duties heretofore unposed upon or payable on account of any
Rate seed, or other Seed commonly made use of for the purpose of
extracting Oil from the same imported from Ireland shall cease determine
and be no longer paid and in lien thereof there shall be paid a Duty of
One Shilling Per Last and no more.
That Your Petitioners, now ready to prove to this Honourable
Court that the price of Midling British Rape Seed now exceeds the
price specified in the Act.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays this
Honourable Court to Certify the prices of Rape
Seed to the Collector of the Customs of this Port
according to the Affidavits hereunto annexed
And in case any application should be made
to this Honble Court to street this Port that your
Petitioner may be heard against such
Application.
And Your Petitioner Shall ever pray
Jos. Chas. Barrow