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Abolition of the Customs Duty Ox Tea.

REPORT [17th APRIL]. – in the House of Commons at on 22 April 1929.

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Resolution reported, That the customs duty chargeable on tea until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, shall cease to be chargeable as from the twenty-second day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.

Resolution agreed to.

Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolutions by the Chairman of Ways and Means, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel.

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