A. D. 1753. ' 295 



III) The exportation of gold and filver, either in foreign coin or bul- 

 lion, (hall be fubjedl to the bye laws of the company. 



IV) The govenior, or deputy-governor and company, are empowered, 

 at a general-court, to make fuch rules, ordinances, or bye laws, for the 

 good government of the company, as the majority of the members pre- 

 fent {hall think ncceflary : but they fhall not be valid, unlefs confirmed 

 at a fubfequent general court, to be held at leaft one month after the 

 former. And if feven or more of the freemen fhall think thcmfclves 

 aggrieved by any rule, &c. made, or to be made, they may appeal 

 againfi: the fame, to the commiflioners for trade and plantations, who 

 are required, with all convenient fpeed, to hear fuch appeal, and to 

 approve or difapprove of fuch law, &c. in fuch manner as fhall ap- 

 pear to them to be fit and reafonable : but fuch rule, ordinance, or bye 

 law, fliall be in force till the appeal fhall be heard, and difapproved 

 thereby. 



V) If any appeal fliall be brought againfi: any future rule, ordinance, 

 or bye law, to be made, it ftiall be brought within twelve months after 

 fuch rule, &c, fhall be made aild confirmed: and if any appeal fliall be 

 brought againfi any law, &c. of the company now in force, it (hall be 

 brought within twelve months after the 24th of June 1754. And the 

 appellants fhall at the fame time give notice in writing of fuch appeal, 

 to the governor, deputy-governor, or fecretary, of the company. 



Thus the trade from Great Britain to the Levant is hereby as much 

 laid open as feems confiftent with the nature of that trade, all things 

 being duely and impartially confidered. 



Yet, after all, it is very difficult to recover a long-declining trade ; 

 efpecially confidering the fhortnefs of the voyage from Marfeilles to the 

 Levant, and their needing but one wind all the way, as well as the 

 cheapnefs of freight, and perhaps Ibme other advantages which the 

 French may have gained from us in this trade. Time alone will decide, 

 whether theie new regulations, or what other means, can or will be 

 effedual for regaining tliat afcendant we once had above all other 

 chriftian nations in the trade to Turkey. 



By an ad of parliament, for encouraging and improving the manu- 

 facflure of linen in the Highlands of Scotland, it was enaded, that as 

 the manufadure of coarfe linens hath been increafed and improved in 

 Great Britain and Ireland, and as fome progreis has been made in the 

 manufadure of hnen in the Highlands of Scotland, under the diredions 

 of the conimiflioners and truftees for improving fifiieries and manu- 

 factures in Scotland ; and as the encouragement of the manufadure of 

 coarle linens in thole parts of the Highlands, wherein the manufadure 

 of linens either hath not been already efiabliftn.d, or not advanced to 

 any confiderable degree of perfedion, will be a farther uicans of im- 



