Fragment regarding smuggling cutters and illicit brandy, gin, and tobacco imports
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- Fragment regarding smuggling cutters and illicit brandy, gin, and tobacco imports
- Description
- This is a fragmentary passage discussing the impact of smuggling cutters on coastal trade, particularly how they supply brandy, gin, and tobacco to local populations, thereby reducing demand for legally imported rum and tobacco and injuring public revenue.
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- Uncertain Readings
- Archive / Repository
- md:20260219_120233.md
- img:20260219_120233.jpg
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- Other
- Provenance
- Fragment only; appears to be an excerpt from a larger document. Contains some unclear word breaks and quotation marks suggesting editorial marks or OCR artifacts (e.g., 'immedie' likely 'immediate', 'Tobac' likely 'Tobacco').
- Language
- English