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The young merchant's assistant or, his business at the Custom-House made easy. Containing The Method of Computing all Manner of Duties, their Discompts, and Drawbacks, by several Ways practiced by the Merchants and Custom-House Officers. Also Instructions for such People that are design'd for Employments, as Masters of Ships, or in Husbanding the same; their whole Business of Reporting and Working a Ship; forming Freight-Notes; the Method of keeping a Freight-Book, and making up an Account of a Ship's Freight. Likewise the Manner of Proceeding in Cases of Single Entries, Entries of several Sorts of Merchandize, Post-Entries, Over-Entries, Warrants, Certificates, Debentures, Bounty-Money, &c. with Examples and Instructions throughout the whole. By Richard Hayes, Accomptant and Writing-Master. Never before Publish'd.

Title
The young merchant's assistant [electronic resource] : or, his business at the Custom-House made easy. Containing The Method of Computing all Manner of Duties, their Discompts, and Drawbacks, by several Ways practiced by the Merchants and Custom-House Officers. Also Instructions for such People that are design'd for Employments, as Masters of Ships, or in Husbanding the same; their whole Business of Reporting and Working a Ship; forming Freight-Notes; the Method of keeping a Freight-Book, and making up an Account of a Ship's Freight. Likewise the Manner of Proceeding in Cases of Single Entries, Entries of several Sorts of Merchandize, Post-Entries, Over-Entries, Warrants, Certificates, Debentures, Bounty-Money, &c. with Examples and Instructions throughout the whole. By Richard Hayes, Accomptant and Writing-Master. Never before Publish'd.
Author
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.
Publication
London : printed for the author and Francis Raw, for the use of their scholars; and sold by John Garret next to the Royal-Exchange Stairs in Cornhill, [1718]

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Description
[4],iii,[5],95,[1]p.; 8⁰.
Subject
  • Customhouses > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
  • Customs administration > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
  • Merchants > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Note
  • With an initial leaf advertising the school run by Hayes and Raw (successors to Mr. John Lyons).
  • Price from imprint: price 2 s. 6 d.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642297218
  • ECCO1-T116194
Author
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.
Title
The young merchant's assistant [electronic resource] : or, his business at the Custom-House made easy. Containing The Method of Computing all Manner of Duties, their Discompts, and Drawbacks, by several Ways practiced by the Merchants and Custom-House Officers. Also Instructions for such People that are design'd for Employments, as Masters of Ships, or in Husbanding the same; their whole Business of Reporting and Working a Ship; forming Freight-Notes; the Method of keeping a Freight-Book, and making up an Account of a Ship's Freight. Likewise the Manner of Proceeding in Cases of Single Entries, Entries of several Sorts of Merchandize, Post-Entries, Over-Entries, Warrants, Certificates, Debentures, Bounty-Money, &c. with Examples and Instructions throughout the whole. By Richard Hayes, Accomptant and Writing-Master. Never before Publish'd.
Imprint
London : printed for the author and Francis Raw, for the use of their scholars; and sold by John Garret next to the Royal-Exchange Stairs in Cornhill, [1718]
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T116194.
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Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
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