Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A duty on salt; in London, a duty, the twentieth part, formerly payable to the lord mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London.
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Thus the income-tax was raised to six and a quarter per cent., and the salt-duty was augmented by one-half.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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In 1730 Gideon (or Gidjun) was appointed supervisor of the salt-duty at Alloa, the leading customs port at the head of the Firth of Forth, and there remained until 1734, when he removed to a similar post at Prestonpans, a smaller town below Leith.
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