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other than calicoes and muslins ; 

 glass ; haberdashery; hats ; tin plates; 

 wrought iron, and hardware ; gold 

 and silver lace,gold and silver thread, 

 bullionforlace, pearl, and spangles; 

 millinery ; paper, stained ; pottery ; 

 sadlery and other manufactured 

 leather ; silk manufacture; stockings 

 — ten per cent, on the true value. 

 Resolved, that it be the seventh 

 article of union, that the charge 

 arising from the payment of the 

 interest, and the sinking fund for 

 the reduction of the principal of the 

 debt incurred in either kingdom 

 before the union, shall continue to 

 be separately defrayed by Great 

 Britain and Ireland respectively, ex- 

 cept as hereinafter provided : that, 

 for the space of twenty years after 

 the union shall take place, the con- 

 tribution of Great Britain and 

 Ireland respectively, towards the 

 expenditure of the united kingdom 

 in each year, shall be defrayed in the 

 .proportion of fifteen parts for Great 

 Britain, and two parts for Ireland : 

 that, at the expiration of the said 

 twenty years, the future expendi- 

 ture of the united kingdom (other 

 .than the interest and charges of the 

 debt to which either country shall 

 .be separately liable,) shall be de- 

 frayed in such proportion as the 

 parliament of the united kingdom 

 shall deem just and reasonable, 

 upon a comparison of the real value 

 of the exports and imports of the 

 respective countries upon an aver- 

 age of the three years next preced- 

 ing the period of revision, or on a 

 comparison of the value of the 

 quantities of the following articles 

 jconsumed within the respective 

 pountries on a similar average, viz. 

 Ibeer, spirits, sugar, wine, tea, to- 

 bacco, and malt, or according to 

 the aggi-egate proportion resulting 



from both these considerations com- 

 bined, or on a comparison of the 

 amount of income in each country 

 estimated from the produce for the 

 same period of a general tax (if such 

 shall have been imposed) on the same 

 descriptions of income in both coun- 

 tries ; and that the parliament of 

 the united kingdom shall afterwards 

 proceed in like manner to revise and 

 fix the said proportions according 

 to the same rules, or any of them, 

 at periods not more distant than 

 twenty years, nor less than seven 

 years from each other ; unless, pre- 

 vious to any such period, the par- 

 liament of the united kingdom shall 

 have declared, as hereinafter pro- 

 vided, that the expenditure of the 

 united kingdom shall be defrayed 

 indiscriminately by equal taxes im- 

 posed on the like articles in both 

 countries : that, for the defraying 

 the said expenditure according to 

 the rules above laid down, the re- 

 venues of Ireland shall hereafter 

 constitute a consolidated fund, 

 which shall be charged, in the first 

 instance, with the interest of the 

 debt of Ireland, and with the sink- 

 ing fund applicable to the reduction 

 of the said debt, and the remainder 

 shall be applied towards defray- 

 ing the proportion of the ex- 

 penditure of the united kingdom to 

 which Ireland may be liable in each 

 year : that the proportion of con- 

 tribution to which Great Britain 

 and Ireland will be liable, shall be 

 raised by such taxes in each country 

 respectively as the parliament of 

 the united kingdom shall from time 

 to time deem fit ; provided always, 

 that in regulating the taxes in each 

 country, by which their respective 

 proportions shall be levied, no arti- 

 cle in Ireland shall be made liable 

 to anv new or additional dutv by 



