Monarch

GEORGE II

Year

1729

Title

3 Geo. II, c. 3,

Description

An Act for the Encouragement of Tillage and better Employment of the Poor; and also for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act intituled [An Act to encourage the draining and improving of Boggs and unprofitable Low-grounds and for easing and dispatching the Inland Carriage and Conveyance of Goods from one Part to another within this Kingdom]; and also for laying several Duties upon Coaches Berlins Chariots Calashes Chaises and Chairs and upon Cards and Dice and upon wrought and manufactured Gold and Silver Plate imported into or made in Ireland for the purposes therein mentioned; and also for repealing the Duties payable upon the Exportation of Wool Bay-yarn and Woollen-yarn out of this Kingdom for England.

Classification

Communications - inland navigation commissioners named for four provinces, financed by private carriage duty, duty on cards and dice, gold and silver to be assayed - duty 6d per troy ounce, tolls charged on boats, no duty on wool, bay-yarn etc. exported to Great Britain; agriculture, tillage and drainage of bogs [cm]