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fourth than the latter. This inequality was rectifi- 

 ed by an act passed the 20th of June 1800, whereby 

 blubber was permitted to be boiled into oil, under 

 the inspection of the proper officers, and such oil 

 admitted to entry, and the duty paid thereon *. 



An act for granting to his Majesty certain duties 

 on goods imported int£), and exported from Great 

 Britain, &:c. includes a duty of 20s. 3d. per ton on 

 train oil, fish-oil, or oil of seals, or other creatures 

 living in the seas, not otherwise enumerated; Is. 9d. 

 per cwi. on whale-fins ; Is. each on undi-essed bear- 

 skins, and 2d. each on undressed seal-skins f. But 

 this act being superseded the following year by the 

 consolidation act of the 43d Geo. III. c. 68, seems 

 not to have been universally enforced on the pro- 

 duce of the whale-fishery \. 



* 39th & 40th Geo. III. c. 51. § 1. 



+ 42d Geo. III. c. 43. table (A.) inwards. 



X The followuig are the duties which were imposed o» 

 Greenland produce by this act. 



Duty. Drawback. 



L. 3. D. L. s. r. 

 Train oil or blubber, or fish-oil of British 



fishing, the ton of 252 gallons, (on oil), 15 9 



(on blubber f) 10 6 



D?7/oof foreign fishing (on oil) per ton, 21 14 

 WTiale-fins of British fishing, (per ton) 



of20cwt. - - 1 10 



D?«oof foreign fishing, (per ton) 120 90 



