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of marts, yards, and bowfprlts, from Scotland ; which, after reciting a 

 former ftatute for this purpofe, enads, ' that from the 29th of Sep- 

 tember 1729, no perfon in the colonies of Nova-Scotia, New-Hamp- 

 ftiire, the province of Maine, Maflachiifet's-bay, Rhode-ifland, and Pro- 

 vidence-plantation, the Naraganfet-country, or King's-province, Con- 

 nedicut, New- York, New-Jerfey, or any other province in America, now 

 belonging, or that fliall hereafter belong, to the crown of Great Britain, 

 fhall prefume to cut, fell, or deftroy, any white pine trees, fit for mafting 

 the royal navy ; (except only fuch as are the property of private perfons) 

 notwith {landing the faid trees do or may grow within the limits of 

 any townfliip laid out, or to be laid out hereafter, without his ma- 

 jefty's royal licence firfl obtained. And whereas King William and 

 Queen Mary's charter, in the third year of their reign, granted to 

 the province of the Mafllichufet's-bay, referved to themfelves and 

 fuccefTors all trees of the diameter of 24 inches and upwards at 1 2 

 inches from the ground, growing in that province, on any ground 

 not before granted to any private perfons ; in order, therefor, to 

 make that refervation more effedual, it was now enaded, that no 

 perfon within the faid proviiice fliall fo cut or deftroy any fuch white 

 pine trees, on any land not granted to private perfons before the 7th 

 of Odober 1690 ; under the penalties of the ad of the 8th of George I. 

 And new and more moderate premiums are granted for the marts, 

 yards, bovvfprits, good tar, pitch, and turpentine, produced in, and im- 

 ported from, America : and fuch naval ftores imported ftiall repay 

 thofe premiums when re-exported. A premium is alfo enaded for 

 the importation of marts, yards, and bowfprits, from Scotland ; 

 where ' (as this ad fets forth) ' there are in fundry parts great rtore 

 of pine and fir trees :' but fo very difficult to bring down to fea- 

 ports, as has rendered that part of this ad, and of that of the 8th of 

 King George I, hitherto ineffedual *. 



1729. — This year the king of Denmark gave the new DaniftiEart-In- 

 dia company a grant of an exclufive trade for forty years. His charter 

 gives the royal fandion to the regulations made by that company in 

 the preceding year, and promifes that their ftock rtiall be exempted 

 from duties, and alfo that the ftock belonging to foreigners, though 

 fubjeds of rtates with whom he may be at war, fliall not be feized on 

 any pretence whatever. 



At length, in November 1729, was concluded the famous treaty of 

 Seville, between Great Britain, France, and Spain, for peace, union, 

 friendflup, and mutual defence, whereby they mutually guarantee 

 each other's dominions, and all the rights and privileges of their com- 

 merce, in all parts of the world: each potentate for this end to furnilli 



• If they cannot be carried as mads, they may be canied as boards. Wherever men can walk, 

 they can carry boards. M. 



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