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<p n="884">To the Right Honourable the <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n884-1">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City of<lb></lb>
London and the rest of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ354">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the same City in their General Quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
peace for the same City assembled.</p>
<p n="885">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n885-1">Joshua Collier</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo816">Cannon Street</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ355">Oilman</rs>
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on behalf of himself and all other Consumes of Rape<lb></lb>
Seed in and about the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo817">City of London</rs>
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<p n="886"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the fifteenth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty intituled "An Acts for encouraging<lb></lb>
the Manufacture of Rape Oil and other Vegetables Acts, in this Kingdom<lb></lb>
by reducing the Duties on Rape seed and other Seeds producing Oil<lb></lb>
imported from Ireland, and for allowing the free Importation of Rape<lb></lb>
Cakes for Manure from Ireland to this Kingdom "it is enacted.</p>
<p n="887">That from and after the first day of August one thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and seventy five whenever the price of Middling British Rape<lb></lb>
seed at the ports and places where Rape seed shall be imported into<lb></lb>
this Kingdom shall appear according to the methods directed by the<lb></lb>
several Acts of Parliament for ascertaining the Rated and prices of<lb></lb>
Corn and Grain imported, to be at or above the price of Seventeen pounds<lb></lb>
and ten shillings per Last all duties theretofore imposed upon or payable<lb></lb>
on account of any Rape seed, or other Seed commonly made use of for the<lb></lb>
purpose of extracting Oil from the same imported from Ireland, should<lb></lb>
cease determine and be no longer paid, and in her thereof there should be<lb></lb>
paid this Majesty his Heirs and Successors a Duty of One Shilling per<lb></lb>
Last and no more upon all Rape Seed and upon all other seeds commonly<lb></lb>
made use of for the purpose of extracting Oil therefrom such Seeds being of<lb></lb>
the Growth of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo818">Ireland</rs>
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and imported from thence into Great Britain.</p>
<p n="888">That your Petition is now ready to prove to this Honourable<lb></lb>
Court that the prices of Middling British Rape Seed now exceed the price<lb></lb>
of Seventeen pounds and ten shillings per Last as specifyed in the said Cut</p>
<p n="889">Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays this Honourable<lb></lb>
Court to Certify the same to the Collector of the Customs of this<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo819">Port of London</rs>
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<p n="890">And Your Petitioner will ever Pray Etc.</p>
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