STATE PAPERS. 



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tation into each country from the 

 other, to the duties specified in the 

 said schedule. No. 2. And the 

 woollen manufactures, known by 

 the names of old and new drapery, 

 shall pay on importation into each 

 country from the other, the duties 

 now payable on importation into 

 Ireland ; salt and hops, on impor- 

 tation into Ireland from Great Bri- 

 tain, duties not exceeding those 

 which are now paid on importation 

 into Ireland; and coals, on impor- 

 tation into Ireland from Great Bri- 

 tain, shall be subject to burthens 

 not exceeding those to which they 

 are now subject : that calicoes and 

 muslins shall, on their importation 

 into either country from the other, 

 be subject and liable to the duties 

 now payable on the same, on the 

 importation thereof from Great Bri- 

 tain into Ireland, until the 5th day 

 of January, 1808; and from and 

 after the said day, the said duties 

 shall be annually reduced by equal 

 proportions, as near as may be, in 

 each year; so as that the said duties 

 shall stand at ten percent, from and 

 after the 5th day of January, 1816, 

 until the 5th day of January, 1821 : 

 and that cotton yam and cotton 

 twist shall, on their importation into 

 either country from the other, be 

 subject and liable to the duties now 

 payable upon the same, on the im- 

 portation thereof from Great Britain 

 into Ireland until the 5th of Janu- 

 ary, 1808; and from and after the 

 said day, the said duties shall be 

 annually reduced by equal propor- 

 tions, as near as may be, in each 

 year ; so that all duties shall cease 

 on the said articles from and after 

 the 5 th day of January, 1816' : that 

 any articles of the growth, produce, 

 or manufacture of either country, 

 which are or may be subject to in- 



ternal duty, or to duty on the ma- 

 terials of which they are composed, 

 may be made subject, on their im- 

 portation into each country respec- 

 tively from the other, to such coun- 

 tervailing duty as shall appear to be 

 just and reasonable in respect of such 

 internal duty or duties on the ma- 

 terials; and that, for the said pur- 

 poses, the articles specified in the 

 said schedule. No. 1 A. and B. shall 

 be subject to the duties set forth 

 therein, liable to be taken off, di- 

 minished, or increased in the man- 

 ner herein specified; and that, upon 

 the export of the said articles from 

 each country to the other respec- 

 tively, a drawback shall be given, 

 equal in amount to the counter- 

 vailing duty payable on such articles 

 on the import thereof into the same 

 country from the other; and that, 

 in like manner, in future it shall be 

 competent to the united parliament 

 to impose anynew or additional coun- 

 tervailing duties, or to take oflf or 

 diminish such existing countervail- 

 ing duties as may appear, on like prin- 

 ciples, tobejustand reasonable in re- 

 spect of any future or additional in- 

 ternal duty on any article of the 

 growth, produce, or manufacture of 

 either country, or of any new or addi- 

 tional duty on any materials of 

 which such article may be com- 

 posed, or of any abatement of duty 

 on the same ; and that when any 

 such new or additional countervail- 

 ing duty shall, be so imposed on the 

 import of any article into either 

 country from the other, adrawback, 

 equal in amount to such counter- 

 vailing duty, shall be given in like 

 manner on the export of every such 

 article respectively from the same 

 country to the other; that all arti- 

 cles, the growth, produce, or ma- 

 nufacture of either country, when 



