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The Spirit Duties Act 1735 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain establishing a retail tax on gin and annual licenses for gin sellers. Designed to curb gin consumption, the law was widely disobeyed and repealed in 1743.
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Background
Gin Craze
Jurists Joseph Jekyll
Excise
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