Excerpt from Considerations on the Expediency of Procuring an Act of Parliament for the Settlement of the Province of Quebec If the Parliament {hould think proper itfelf to lay a tax upon the province, Information has been received from perfons well acquainted with the (late and trade of the province, that Britifh fpirits would be the com modity that could belt bear a duty, and would produce tliedbelt revenue; that therie'are annually imported into the province about gallons of thefe fpirits, and that they might bear a duty of three-pence a gallon, without hurting the trade, but not more; and this would produce about 30005. A year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.