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2IO A. D. 1736. 



67,600 cliefls of fugar, each of 12 liundrecl-weighi ; in all, 8rr,20O 

 hundred-weight of that commodity. Tlie Portuguefe ftill fupplv Spain, 

 fundry parts of tlie Mediterranean coafl, Holland, and Hamburgh, with 

 a confiderable quantity of fugar, as they formerly did England and 

 France, till they laid 10 per cent additional impofl on their fugars, and 

 till the two later nations had well cultivated their own fiigar colonies. 



The Dutch are faid to produce ufually between 30,000 and 40,000 

 hogfheads of fugar annually at the colony of Surinam ; and they are of 

 late improving their plantations of Barbecics and Ifequebe, adjoining 

 to Surinam on the continent of South-America. The Dutch alfo fre- 

 quently import fugars from Eaft- India, and fome alfo from their own 

 ifles of Euflatia and Curacoa. 



By an ait of parliament [9 Geo. II, c. 34] for enabling his majefty to 

 borrow any fum of money not exceeding L6oo,ooo, to be charged on 

 the finking fund, &c. one million was paid off on the new joint ftock 

 of South-fea annuities, from chriftmas 1 "j^G ; which amounted to L9 : 

 2/" per cent, written off from each proprietor's account, exclufive of 

 fractions. 



In the fame feffion an a(5l pafled to reflrain the difpofition of lands, 

 whereby the fame become vmalienable. The preanible to this new 

 mortmain law fets forth, that ' whereas gifti, or alienations of lands, 

 ^-*~tenements,or hereditaments, in mortmain, are prohibited or reftrained 

 by magna charta, and by divers other wholefome laws, as prejudicial 

 to, and againfl the common utility ; neverthekTs, this public mifchicf 

 has of late greatly increafed, by many large and improvident aliena- 

 tions or difpofitions made by languilhing or dying perfons,or by other 

 perfons, to ufes called cliaritable, to take place after their deaths, to 

 the diflierifon of their lawful heirs : for remedy whereof, be it enaci> 

 ed, that no manors, lands, tenements, rents, advowfons, or other he- 

 reditaments, corporeal or incorporeal whatfoever, nor any fum or 

 fums of money, goods, chattels, Itocks in the public tunds, fecurities 

 for money, or any other perfonal eftate whatloever, to be laid out or 

 difpofed of in the purchafe of any laiids, tenements, or hereditaments, 

 fttajll be given, granted, aliened, limited, releaied, transferred, aflign- 

 ed, or appointed, or any way conveyed, or fettled to, or upon, any per- 

 fon or perfons, bodies politic or corporate, or otherwilc, tor any cftatc 

 or intereft whatfoever, or any ways charged or encumbered by any 

 perfon or perfons whatfoever, in trufl:, or for the benefit of, any cha- 

 ritable ufes whatfoever ; unlefs fuch gif:, conveyance, appointment, or 

 fettlement, of any fuch lands, tenements, perfonal eflate, money, &c. 

 (other than flocks in the public funds), be made by deed, indented, 

 fealed, and delivered, in the prefence of two or more creditable wit- 

 nefies, twelve calendar months at leafl before the death of fuch donor 

 or granter (including the days of the execution and death), and be 



