Section 2

Municipal Duty on Tobacco intended for consumption in Bombay.

Tobacco Duty (Town of Bombay) Act, 1857

  • Act 4 of 1857
  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
About this Act

AN ACT to amend the law relating to the duties payable on Tobacco, and the retail sale and warehousing thereof in the Town of Bombay.

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    All Tobacco (except such small quantities as are hereinafter mentioned) imported from any place into the Town of Bombay and intended for consumption therein shall be liable to a duty of seven Rupees and eight annas per maund of forty seers of eighty tolas to the seer, which duty is hereinafter called the Municipal Duty; and such duty shall be leviable in addition to any Customs Duty prescribed by Law.

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