AN ACT FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL PREVENTION OF THE MANUFACTURING OF ASH, ELDER, SLOE, AND OTHER LEAVES, IN IMITATION OF TEA, AND TO PREVENT FRAUDS IN THE REVENUE OF EXCISE IN RESPECT TO TEA. Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magna Britannia, Francia, & Hibernia, DECIMO SEPTIMO. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

[TEA ADULTERATION]; [ACTS OF PARLIAMENT]:

Verlag: London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan., 1777

Beschreibung

First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 803-810. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just some minor toning and a little wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An act making it an offence to sell adulterated tea, with a fine of £5 for each pound in weight of adulterated or imitation tea. The act also required anyone found in possession of any more than six pounds in weight of the offending 'imitation' leaves prove that they had permission to gather the leaves from the tree's owner and that the leaves would not be put to use in the creation of imitation tea. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1226

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Titel: AN ACT FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL PREVENTION OF ...

Verlag: London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1777

Auflage: 1. Auflage