malt-tax

malt-tax
A tax of six pence a bushel on malt and a proportionate sum on certain liquors, such as cider and perry, first levied by parliament in 1697, the whole yielding an annual sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year. See 1 Bl Comm 313.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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