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lion of tobacco through officers hands and much 

 thereof thereby exhausted ; and the persons them- 

 selves to whome the encouragements are thereby due, 

 desiring to relinquish all their claimes, and the same 

 being so represented to this assembly, rinding suffi- 

 cient encouragement by the benefitt received of their 

 labours to promote and propagate soe beneficial 

 manufactures." * 



After which follows the repealing clause. 



Bounties were again offered in Virginia 

 in I775. 2 



The Assembly of Rhode Island granted 

 considerable aid to William Borden in the 

 manufacture of canvas and duck. In 1722 

 he was granted a bounty of twenty shil- 

 lings on each bolt manufactured for ten 

 years; and in 1725 he was granted five 

 hundred pounds a year for three years 

 from the general treasury, " if there be so 

 much to spare." Not content with this 

 generous provision, he applied for and re- 

 ceived in 1728 a loan of three thousand 

 pounds, without interest, for ten years ; and 

 the bounty of twenty shillings per bolt was 

 continued. 3 In 1731, 1735, and 1751, Acts 



1 3 Hen. Stat, p. 16. 2 i Bishop, p. 382. 3 Ibid, p. 334. 



