[Rarebooks] FS: Liquor Smuggling & Bag Checking in 1867

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"Passengers' Baggage (Paris Exhibition)"  London; House of Commons: 1867.

A pair of Parliamentary papers which are "Copies of Memorials to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer with respect to the examination of passengers'
baggage during the continuance of the Paris Exhibition and of
correspondence between the Treasury and the Commissioners of Customs upon
the subject".

Briefly, a group of members of Parliament (among them Benjamin Disraeli)
wanted the Chancellor to do away with the inspection of incoming
passengers' baggage from Paris for the duration of the Paris exhibition,
claiming the increase in bags and traffic would impose burdensome waits.
The Treasury's answer showed (in detail) that it would do no such thing,
and pointed out that the difference in prices for alcoholic beverages and
tobacco between Paris and England made smuggling very attractive. The MP's
appealed, claiming there was no such price differential, to which the
Treasury again objected, showing the differentials in detail, and so on.
Although it all sounds pretty dry, there is a great amount of interesting
detail about cross-channel passages and customs practices, and the state
of the liquor and tobacco trades in the two countries.

2 pieces; 8.25"x12.5", 20 + 7 pages; disbound from a larger volume; some
chipping and creasing, several stamps.  [30603]  $65.00

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