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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01928	The case of the salt-refiners in Suffolk, Essex, and Norfolk		1695 (1695)	Wing C1162; ESTC R171030	2,182	1

The CASE of the Salt-Refiners in Suffolk Essex and Norfolk BY the Late Act of Parliament for the Granting certain Rates and Duties upon Salt amongst other things it is Enacted That For every Gallon of Salt and Rock-Salt made at the Salt-Works or taken out of any Pits within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed the Sum of one Peny half Peny per Gallon and after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity By which Clause all English Salt is Charg'd only Three half-pence per Gallon And afterwards the Statute saith And to the intent That Salt made by Melting and Refining of Rock-Salt may not contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act be Charg'd more than other English Salt The CASE A Salt-Maker of New-Castle upon Tyne after the 24th of March 1694. makes an Hundred Weighs of Salt and fells the same to some of the above Refiners who pay the Duty and send the Salt to Woodbridge with a Certificate that the above Duty is paid at New-Castle The Salt-Refiner at Woodbridge melts this Salt in River-Water and then boyles the Liquor in order to the Refining thereof which having done to such a degree of Fineness as he thinks convenient it 's Reduced into Salt again much the same in quality it was before only in Cleanness differing from New-Castle Salt The Salt being as above-mentioned Refined lyes some time till the Brine is well drained from it and in time becomes fit for Sale and doth not advance in Weight or Measure any quantity if any to Intitle a Second Duty for such Salt as hath paid His Majesty Duty as the Act Directs The Excise-Officers upon the before first mentioned Clause in the Statute demand a new Duty of Three half-pence in the Gallon from this Refined Salt which the Refiner humbly conceives himself not liable to pay either from the Letter or Intention of the Statute First Not from the Letter which saith That for every Gallon of Salt made at the Salt-Works c. the Sum of One peny half-peny per Gallon The Refiner of Salt in Common Speech is not called a Maker of Salt nor in any Writing doth he so stile himself but is alwayes Call'd and Writ A Refiner of Salt neither indeed is he any otherwise a Maker of Salt than a Refiner of Sugar can be call'd a Maker of Sugar And it seems most plain That it was never the Intention of this Statute that this second Duty should be paid by the Refiner Because the Statute to Encourage the English made Salt Impos'd only Three half-pence per Gallon on English Salt but laid a double Duty of Three pence per Gallon on all Foreign Salt Imported whereas this New Duty demanded of the Refiner for this Refin'd Salt which before Refin'd had paid the Legal Duty is as is humbly conceiv'd a Discouragement rather than an Incouragement which the Statute design'd to give to all sorts of English Salt of what Nature or Kind soever For if this Second Duty be Payable by the Refiner then doth English Refin'd Salt become Charg'd with as great an Imposition as the Foreign Salt is subjected to and so these Refiners Trade will be utterly Ruined seeing the Profit that ariseth from the Refining of Salt will not bear the Charge of this double Imposition and consequently His Majesties Interest be so far from being promoted by this Second Duty that it will rather be much Lessened inasmuch as these Refiners who now buy great Quantities of Salt from Shields Sunderland or Lemington where the Salt pays the Duty must desist from their Trade and so there will not be such Quantities bought at those Places as now are and consequently His Majesties Revenue therein be considerably diminished Object But this Refin'd Salt is of another Species from that Salt from which it was Refin'd and which had paid the Duty and consequently this Refin'd Salt is subjected to the same single Duty that all other English Saltsare lyable to pay Answ This Refin'd Salt cannot properly be said to be Salt of another Species from that out of which it was Refin'd because it differs not in the Salt Quality but only in the Cleanness from Dirt c. This being cleansed from that Filth and Dirt which all New-Castle Salt is subject to and it's humbly conceived a difference only in this respect can't truly be said to make a New Species By the before-recited Clause with Relation to Rock-Salt it 's particularly exprest That Rock Salt Refin'd should not pay as Rock Salt and therefore Twelve Pence in the Bushel is allowed to the Refiner for every Bushel of Rock Salt by him Refined And the reason of this Allowance that the before-recited Clause gives viz. to the Intent That Salt made by Melting and Refining of Rock Salt may not contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act be Charged more than any other English Salt Now Although the Refiner of New Castle Salt be not within the Letter of this Clause yet it's humbly conceiv'd he is within the Equitable Intention thereof For what reason is there to imagine that the Parliament design'd to be so partially favourable to the Refiners of Rock Salt as to Exempt them from a double Duty and at the same time subject the Refiners of all sorts of other English Salt to this Second Imposition wherein they would with Submission Act against the Declared Intent and Meaning of the Statute which in substance saith that it is contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the Act That English Salt whether Refined or Unrefined should pay more than Three half-pence per Gallon Refin'd Salt is Experimentally found to be far exceeding all other Salt in preserving our Butter for which Cause Suffolk Butter preserved with this Salt keeps sweeter than any other sort of Salt Butter not salted therewith For Unrefin'd Salt hath some mixture of Filth which soon taints the Butter and renders it very Unpalatable So that the loss of this Refin'd Salt which can't possibly bear the Charge of Three pence per Gallon considering what great Expences the Refiners are at in their Refining will be a great prejudice to the Publick especially to the City of London which is every Year supplyed with many Thousand Firkins of this Wholesome and Well-Preserv'd Salt-Butter