HC Deb 21 September 1915 vol 74 cc428-9

11. Resolved, That in addition to the duties of Excise now payable on tobacco grown in Great Britain or Ireland there shall, on and after the twenty-second day of September, nineteen hundred and fifteen, until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be charged the following additional duties, that is to say:—

£ s. d.
Upon tobacco manufactured, namely:—
Tobacco containing 10 lbs. or more of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof, the lb. 0 1 10
Tobacco containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof, the lb. 0 2
Upon tobacco manufactured, namely:—
Cavendish or Negrohead manufactured in bond, the lb. 0 2 4
and so on in proportion for any less quantity.

And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.—[The Chancellor of the Exchequer.]