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APPENDIX IV. 



Appendix IV. — cont. 



Year 



1670 



1688' 



1757 

 1766 



1773 



2 Car. II. 

 c. 13 



1 Wm. & 

 Mary, c. 12 



30 Geo. II. 



c. 7 



6 Geo. III. 



c. 3 & 4 



13 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 43 



Provisious 



(b) Prohibited exportation when the 

 home price of wheat was 53s. 4<f. 

 or above it. Other grain in pro- 

 portion. 

 Bounties were offered of 5s. on every 



exported quarter of wheat when 



the prices were at or below 48s. 



2s.6tf. per qr. of barley or malt „ 24s. 



3s. 6d. „ rye, beans, or peas „ 32s. 



2s. Qd. „ oats or oatmeal „ 15s. 



Imports continued to be governed 

 by the Act of 1670. 



This Act remained in force till 1773, 

 but it was suspended during each 

 of the following years: — 1698, 

 1699, 1709, 1741,1756, 1757, 1759, 

 1765-67, 17G8-69, 1771, 1773 

 Imports allowed duty free till August 



25, 1757. 

 Permitted importation of wheat, oats, 



and oatmeal from A merica duty free 



up to Michaelmas in that year. 

 Burke's Act — 



(1) Prohibited exports and abolished 

 the bounty when the quarter of 

 wheat was at or above 44s., of rye 

 28s., of barley 32s., of oats 14s. 



Bounties jiaid vpon Exports of Corn under 1 William Jy Mary from 

 1697-1765. 



Between 1765 and 1773 the law was almost continuously suspended. In 1773 Burke's 

 Act was passed. lu the nest twenty-sis years the imports of wheat (and of other grain 

 In proportion) exceeded the exports. The following table shows the gradual decline of 

 our export trade :— 



1765-74 imports of wheat exceeded exports by 830,619 quarters 



1775-84 „ „ „ „ 605,747 



1785-94 „ „ „ „ 711,462 



1795-99 „ „ „ „ 2,349,830 „ 



