USEFUL PROJECTS. 
quantity of such rye shall exceed 
100,000 quarters ; and also that a 
bounty of six shillings per quarter 
should be given for every quarter 
of rye which shall be imported in- 
to Great Britain before the 3oth 
day of September, 1796, exceeding 
the quantity to which the before- 
mentioned bounty is limited. 
Your committee are also inclin- 
ed to recommend an extension of 
the period for which the several 
bounties on grain and flour are 
proposed to be granted, They 
observe, from the weekiy returns 
of the price of wheat in the whole 
kingdom, and of the price and 
quantity in the London market, 
since January last, that the highest 
price and the greatest scarcity took 
place during the months of July 
and August, and particularly in 
the latter. These, therefore, are 
the months for which it is most im- 
portant to provide; and they are 
led to fear, that if the bounty is 
confined to such corn as may ar- 
rive before the 31st of August, 
merchants may be discouraged from 
sending supplies to this country 
during that month, by the appre- 
hension that they may not arrive 
in time to be entitied to the bounty. 
They beg leave therefore to sug- 
gest an extension of the time tothe 
30th of September; and they sub- 
mit, whether it might not also be 
expedient to place, in proper hands, 
a discretionary power of allowing 
the bounties to such ships as may 
arrive before the 15th of October, 
upon proof of their having a¢tyally 
set sail from Great Britain, from 
their respective ports, at such time 
that they might, in the ordinary 
edurse of their voyage, have arriv. 
ed before the 30th of September. 
“Your committee have also re- 
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ceived asuggestion from merchants 
trading to the southern parts of 
Europe and to Africa, that it would 
be advisab'e to enlarge the quan- 
tity to which the highest bounty 
upon corn, brought from those 
quarters, was proposed to be limit. 
ed: they do not state an expetta- 
tion, that the whole of that quan- 
tity can be procured; but they are 
apprehensive that the original li- 
mitation may tend to check specu- 
lation, by the fear of exceeding 
the quantity specificd—and they 
propose, therefore, that the high. 
est bounty should be extended to 
400,000 quarters. 
Your committee have also ex. 
amined several merchants, respect. 
ing the proportion which the boun- 
ty upon flour ought to bear to that 
upon wheat: they have been sa- 
tisfied by this examination that, in 
consideration of the various sizes 
and weight of the barrels used in 
different countries, it would be 
more advisable to grant a bounty 
on the hendred-weight of flour 
than on the barrel, aa had been at 
first suggested; that it is expedi- 
ent to adopt, on the importation of 
wheat and wheat flour, the same 
proportion of bounties which has 
been already established by the 
legislature on the exportation of 
the same (i. e.) 1s. 6d. per hundnd 
weight of wheat flour, as equiv. 
lent to 5s. per quarter of wheat; 
and that the same rule ought to be 
applied to Indian corn and meal. 
In suggesting, in their former 
report, that the bounty given on 
wheat ought ca be limited ta:such 
as weighed not less than at the 
rate of 55 pounds per bushel, your 
commitiee proceeded on informa. 
tion then received, that wheat of 
a lower weight was usually of so 
Ee inferior 
