TEA. appear necessary for the security of the revenue; and all regulations, so made, shall have the force of law as fully as if the same were embodied in this act, and shall be obeyed and enforced in like manner as any rules of customs or of excise respectively are or can be obeyed or enforced under the provisions of any act of parliament relating to the customs or to the excise respectively; and copies of such rules and regulations shall be laid before parliament. Re-import. By 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 52, § 33, tea shall not be re-imported into the United Kingdom for home use upon the ground that the same had been legally exported from thence, but the same shall be deemed to be foreign goods, whether originally such or not, and shall also be deemed to be imported for the first time into the United Kingdom. Stock. By 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 93, § 114, from August 28, 1833, all enactments and provisions directing the East India Company to provide for keeping a stock of tea shall be repealed. Growth, &c.-The principal tea provinces-for tea is more or less grown in every part of the empire-are Fokien, Kiangnan, and Chekiang, all maritime provinces, and Kiansi. The tea is not even permitted to be brought coastwise to Canton in native vessels, but is conveyed through the interior, partly by tedious and difficult river and canal navigation, partly by laborious land carriage, and is, in one instance, transported by manual labour, over a very high range of mountains. Frequent transhipments are rendered necessary, and it is subject to these inconveniences for the sole purpose of securing numerous and exorbitant transit duties. There is, perhaps, no produce of the earth which is exposed to such a variety of taxation as a tea-leaf. It yields a profit, in the first instance, to the small farmer by whom it is cultivated, and a second to the tea-merchant by whom it is manufactured. It is taxed directly and indirectly, five or six times in its progress to Canton, where, on its arrival, besides yielding large profits to the Hong merchants, and paying the imperial duties, it is subject to the impositions of the officers of the local government; it pays an expensive freight to England; and, after yielding liberal profits to the Company, it falls into the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is needless to point out what prodigious advantages would arise from our ships proceeding, as formerly, to the ports in the tea provinces, or what an extended consumption there would be of our manufactures by an intercourse with the more northern portion of the Chinese empire. I am disposed to regard it as presenting the widest field for commercial enterprise which remains untrodden in the world. Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, President of the Board of the Select Committee in China. 1833. A RETURN of the QUANTITIES and PRICES of the several sorts of TEA sold by the East India Company in the following Years. TEASLES, the 1,000 TOB. TEETH, viz. ELEPHANTS, SEA COW, SEA HORSE, or SEA MORSE TEETH, the cwt. TELESCOPES, the 1007. value TERRA. JAPONICA or CATECHU, the cwt. SIENNA, the cwt. UMBRA, the cwt. VERDE, the cwt. THREAD, viz. 1 0 MANUFACTURES OF, not otherwise enumerated or ORE, the 100%. value TINCAL. See BORAX. TIN FOIL, the 100%. value TOBACCO, viz. 0 15 0 0 15 0 040 0 18 0 25 0 50 0 0 15 0 2 10 0 UNMANUFACTURED, the lb. ...... the produce of and imported from MANUFACTURED, or SEGARS, the lb. Tobacco and Snuff prohibited to be imported on pain of forfeiture under the following circumstances, viz. unless in a ship of the burthen of 120 tons or upwards. Tobacco of and imported from the State of Colombia, and Segars, unless in packages containing 100lb. weight of Segars. divided in any manner within the outward package, provided such outward package be a hogshead, cask, chest, or case, and contain 450 lb. net at least. and unless the particular weight of Tobacco or Snuff in each hogshead, cask, chest, or case, with the tare of the same, be marked thereon. and unless in the Ports of London, Liverpool, Bristol, Lancaster, Cowes, Falmouth, Whitehaven, Hull, Port Glasgow, Greenock, Leith, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Plymouth, Belfast, Cork, Drogheda, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Londonderry, Newry, Sligo, Waterford, and Wexford. or into some other Port or Ports which may hereafter be appointed for such purpose by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury; such appointments in Great Britain being published in the London Gazette, and such appointments in Ireland being published in the Dublin Gazette. but any ship wholly laden with Tobacco may come into the Ports of Cowes or Falmouth (a) to wait for orders, and there remain fourteen days, provided due report of such ship be made by the master with the collector or controller of such Port. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 52, §58. (a) By customs order, dated January 3, 1833, it is directed that the same privilege previously granted to Cowes and Falmouth, relating to vessels laden with Tobacco, and which could not hitherto come into this port to refit, or for orders, be extended to Portsmouth. Tobacco stalks stripped from the leaf, whether manufactured or not, and Tobacco stalk flour, prohibited to be imported for home use on pain of forfeiture, but may be warehoused for exportation only. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 52, § 58, 59, 60. By 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 52, § 33, Tobacco shall not be re-imported into the United Kingdom for home use upon the ground that the same had been legally exported from thence, but shall be deemed to be Foreign goods, whether originally such or not, and shall also be deemed to be imported for the first time into the United Kingdom. By 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 54, § 2, Tobacco, being the produce of Europe, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom to be used therein, except in British ships, or in ships of the country of which the goods are the produce, or in ships of the country from which the goods are imported. of By 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 52, § 32, no abatement of duties shall be made on account any damage received by Tobacco. |