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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1734, 1-15 April 1734, 1-15 [April 1.] … of the Kingdom to pay for such vast quantities of French brandy as are imported and run here, amounting as has been … 300,000 a year, may not be saved by lowering the duty on rum of the produce of H.M. Sugar Islands, and by that means …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1735 April 1735 April 3. St. James's. … or negroes; (iii) to prevent the importation or use of rum and brandies in the province of Georgia. Signed, Temple … Independent Companies and of that of laying an Excise on rum being also expired on the 28th of March last, I called …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1736 April 1736 [April 6.] 282. … 14th). 1. That a certain number of gentlemen, merchants and others be incorporated Trustees for promoting the said … and expeditious straining of liquors for making sugar and rum: (viii) declaring part of the Newtown house in the town …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1737, 16-30 April 1737, 16-30 April 16. … Verelst, enclosing three quarters accounts of the duty on rum granted for the benefit of Georgia to 1 March last. They … juries do not care to find bills of indictment for selling rum (though fully proved); you will easily see therefore the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1738 April 1738 April 2. 133 James … and Plantations. The said ship was lost in a hurricane at Rum Key after being detained by Governor Woods Rogers at New … service, first to Exuma, then to Abico, and finally to Rum Key where she was lost. A copy of letter dated at London, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1739 April 1739 121 April 1 Augusta … Jenys now remains due after the credit for the duty of rum, and 3 l 3 s otherwise due to the Trustees, is given … bill to revive the Act passed in 1737 for laying duties on rum, etc and one to restrain hogs from running at large, I …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies August 1670 August 1670 Aug. 1. Jamaica. 226. … Morgan is to take from such persons their commissions and confer them on others in whom the Admiral can confide; … advice, but took out of her 17 cases and "three anchors of brandy" and drew a bill on his owners. Van Ducker was cleared …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies August 1671 August 1671 Aug. 2. Barbadoes. … to let him know he has another old servant, acquaintance, and beadsman alive here. This island affords nothing worthy … 6 s. per gallon; wines 4 l. per tun, beer 30 s., and rum 40 s. per tun, every ship 12 d. per ton for anchorage, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies August 1675 August 1675 Aug. 4. 631. Minutes … for Plantations. The Lords report of Mr. Harris's case and the remedy fit for him, all drawn up this day in a letter … viz.: An Act restraining physicians' high fees and fining rum works. In margin, "Print this and (2) for the speedy …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies August 1681 August 1681 Aug. 6. 196. Mem.A … of the men while the Indians were drinking kill-devil or rum (this country's spirit) and pillaging the house. There … the same by Act; to the non-execution of the laws against rum-sellers; to the evil done to the island by vagrant and …