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Ruffia for account of foreigners fettled in Ruffia, or Ruffians, 

 and fome part for account of our manufacturers. With re- 

 fpect to Germany this is ftill more the cafe. 



The Levant Company exact a duty on all merchandife ex- 

 ported to and imported from Turkey, befides a confulage in 

 the ports of Turkey on all the exports and imports in Britifh 

 veflcls. This confulage is a very heavy burthen on our trade, 

 and particularly when it isconiidered that fome other nations 

 pay none. The following are the words of the company's 

 bye-law : 



" At a general court, &c. the following orders were 

 eftablifhed as proper and expedient for the fupport of the 

 company's affairs, and for the government of the trade ; and 

 they were confirmed at a general court held 3d of March 



*775- 



" It was refolved and ordered, That all goods exported 



from Turkey or Egypt for Great Britain (hall pay three con- 



fulages and one-half, or fcven in the hundred, according to 



the rates of the company's tarif, in fuch fpecies of the grand 



feignior's coin as his officers receive forcuftoms; which 



confulage fliall be paid, one-half in thirty days, and the 



other half in fixty days after the departure of the (hip, &c. ; 



and the company's treafurers are not to take any notes or 



obligations for the payments of confulages, but they aj*e to 



infill upon being paid in money when it is due. 



" That all goods imported, &c. into Great Britain, (hall 

 pay one imposition according to the company's rates, &c. 

 except cotton and emery (tones, &c. 



" That all goods imported into Turkey or Egypt, from 

 Leghorn, or any other port or ports of Chrifiendom, by 

 Britifh fubjects or Britifh (hips, for account of foreigners, 

 fliall pay a confulage of two in the hundred, &c. 



" That all goods exported from Conftantinople, Smyrna, 

 and Aleppo, to Leghorn, or any other foreign port or ports 

 of Chriltendom, by Britifh fubje&s, on foreign (hips, on ac- 



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