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eorn and meal, taken together, 
‘shallequal 5oo,cooquarters. Your 
cominittee were also of opinion, 
that a bounty of three shillings per 
quarter, and a proportional bounty 
per barrel, should be given on any 
number of quarters of Indian corn, 
or on any number of barrels of 
Indian meal, which shall be im- 
ported into Great Britain before 
the 31st day of August, 1796; and 
on which the before mentioned 
bounty shall not have been paid. 
Your committee have some rea- 
son to believe, that there may ap- 
pear such a deficiency in the crop 
of rye, as may lead to the applica- 
tion of similar measures for the en- 
couragement of the importation of 
that species of grain, as have been 
recommended respecting wheat ; 
but they do not yet consider their 
information upon that point as suf- 
ficient to authorize them, at the 
present moment, to report any opi- 
nion to that effect. 
Your committee have thought 
it incumbent upon them, humbly 
to suggest such measures as have 
hitherto appeared, in their judg. 
ment, the most likely to facilitate 
the procuring, without loss of time, 
in the least exceptionab’e manner, 
and on the least unreasenable terms, 
the largest supply of grain from fo- 
reign parts, which, in the present 
“relative state of the markets, they 
can be expected to afford. 
particularly with a view to expe. 
dition that they have suggested the 
proposed plan of arranging the 
bounty. Put they feelit, at the 
game time, their indispensable duty 
expressly to state, that they are far 
from entertaining any opinion that 
any supply, by importation, can be 
depended upon to such an amount 
as to remove the necessity of 
It was” 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1766. 
recurring to every other pratticabile 
and reasonable mode, by which the 
present scarcity may be relieved ; 
and particularly of \attending. to 
strict economy in the consumption 
of wheat and flour, and of promot- 
ing the substitution, to a certain 
extent, of other articles of food. 
They intend to proceed immedi. 
ately to the consideration of these 
and other parts of this extensive 
and important subje€t; and will, 
with the permission of the house, 
report, from time to time, such 
opinions as they may be enabled to 
form thereupon, 
Second Report fram the Sele& Committee 
appointed to take into consideration 
the present high price of Corn. 
THE select committee appointed 
to take into consideration the pres 
sent high price of corn, and to col- 
lect evidence relative thereto, and 
to report the same from time to 
time, as it shall appear to them, to 
the house, with their observations 
thereupon,—have received, since 
their last report, further informa. 
tion respeéting the deficiency in 
the crop of rye, and the great want 
of that article in those parts of the 
country where it forms the princi« 
pal subsistence cf the people s and 
they are thereby induced to think 
that similar measures ought to be 
adopted for the encouragement of 
the importation of that species of 
grain, as have been reeommended 
respecting wheat. They beg leave 
therefore to submit their opinion 
to the house, that a bounty of ten 
shillings per quarter should be gi- 
ven for every quarter of rye, weigh. 
ing not less than fifty pounds per 
bushel, ~which shall be imported 
into Great Britain before the 30th 
day of September, 1796, until the 
quantity 
