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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. 



CORN BILL. 



Continued from p. 192. 



UuMNGtlie recefs of parliament, many pamplilets, as usualj 

 were publiflied on the subject of the corn bill, and among 

 these none made a more distinguiflied figure than that by 

 lord Sheffield, who disputed In many respects the principles 

 afsumed by the committee. On the 14th of December, 

 Mr Ryder moved, in a committee of parliament, some reso- 

 lutions, merely with a view to have them printed before the 

 holidays, for the consideration of the members. Agreed 

 to. 



The purport of these resolutions was, that in order td 

 ; ascertain the selling price of grain, the whole of Britain 

 iliould be divided into certain districts, therein specified ■} 

 in each of which the actual prices {hould be taken at sta- 

 ted periods, and transmitted to an officer in London to be 

 appointed for that purpose j who ffiould, according to regu- 

 lations provided for that purpose, publiffi these prices, and 

 which flioulu be accounted tile standard for regulating the 

 importation and exportation of grain ; that liberty Ihould 

 be given to warehouse foreign grain under certain regula- 

 tions, when it could not be sold in this -country j that go- 

 vernment fhould provide warehouses at certain ports for tiat 

 purpose ; with other clauses which had been formerly car- 

 ried into practice. 



After a committee of the whole house had sitten by "Several 

 .adjournments on this bill, in the progrefs of which nothing 

 very remarkable occurred till March 11. 1791, when a 

 warm debate took place on the clause permitting the ware- 

 housing of corn. I'he proceedings, in this case were too re- 

 markable to be pafsed over in silence. 



Upon the clause for erecting warehouses for the recep- 

 -tion of foreign corn, the committee, on the motion of 

 lord Sheffield, divided •, — Ayes, 62 ; — Noes, 62. 



The chairman thereupon gave his casting vote for the 

 /vt-i'j-, and the clause wa* of course thrswa out of the biU. 



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