NMMC

By JennyNMMC

  • Navigation Acts

  • Prohibtion Act

    Prohibited the import of French items

  • Governement raised the import duty of Tobacco

    Increased from 2d to 5d per pound, increasing smuggling.

  • Navigation Act

  • Smuggling Act

  • Burning Act

  • Smuggling Act

    Threatened smugglers with transportation unless they paid fines or pled.

  • Hovering Act

  • Act for preventing frauds and abuses in the poublic revenues of excise and customs

  • Smuggling Act

  • Statute (10 Geo.I C.10)

    Tea became subject to high excise duties. This was in addition to the customs duty of just under 14% payable by the EIC itself

  • Smuggling Act

    • Smuggling became a capital offence
    • The names of suspected smugglers had to be published in the London Gazette

  • Customs House established on Guernsey

  • Act of Oblivion

    Offered a full pardon to smugglers if they were willing to join the Navy. This was a time of intermittent warfare

  • 'A Word to a Smuggler' by John Wesley Published

  • Commutation Act

    Reduction of Crown duties on tea from 119% to 12.5%

  • French Revolution

  • Tobacco Laws

  • Bank Restriction Act

    Prohibited gold from leaving the country through export.

  • Anti-Smuggling Act