3o8 A. D. 1757. 



An acl to continue the hift-named aft, for difcontinuing the duties 

 upon corn and flour imported, &c. 



AUb an adt for continuing an acl of this fame feflion, to prohibit, 

 for a Umited time, the making of low wines and fpirits from wheat, 

 barley, malt, &c. or from any meal or flour. 



1-7:58. — By a flatutc of the next feflion of parliament, the above fta- 

 tutes for remedying the dearth of corn and other provifions, are farther 

 prolonged to the 24th of December 1758. 



And by another fl;atute of the fame year, the importation of falted 

 beef, pork, and butter, into Great Britain from Ireland, at the time of 

 fo great a dearth of all kinds of provifions, was permitted for fix months 

 from midfummer 1758, free from the payment of allfubfidies, cufl:oms, 

 &c. excepting 173 per cwt. for fuch beef and pork imported, and 4^/ per 

 cwt. on falted butter ; (altered next feflion to 374 per barrel fur falted 

 beef, pork, or butter ; and 1/3 per cwt. for dried beef tongues, or dried 

 hogs meat) in order to be adequate to the duty payable for fuch quan- 

 tity of fait as is requifite in curing and faking thereof, [31 Geo. 11, 

 c. 28.] 



In the fame feflion was pafl^ed an ad for the due making of bread ; 

 and to regulate the price and aflize thereof; and to punifli perfons who 

 fliall adulterate meal, flour, or bread. This act was principally occafion- 

 ed by accoxmts dayly publiflied of certain bakers mixing lime, alum, 

 and other unwholefome ingredients, in that time of fcarcity, in their 

 bread. The legiflature therefor took that matter into their ferious con- 

 fideration, and took this opportunity likewife of examining an aft of 

 the 51 ft of King Henry III, intitled, JJfiza panis et cerevifict, (i. e. the af- 

 fize of bread and ale) and another aft of the 8th year of Queen Anne, 

 to regulate the price and aflize of bread ; whereby fo much of the for- 

 mer aft as related to the aflize of bread was repealed. The aft of Queen 

 Anne, with feveral alterations and amendments made thereto by fome 

 fubfequent afts, was continued till the 24th of June 1757, and to the 

 end of the then next feflion of parliament. This prefent ftatute, therefor, 

 reduced into one aft all the feveral laws in force, relating to the due mak- 

 ing, and to the prices and aflize, of bread, all preceding ftatutesbeingthere- 

 by repealed : and new tables for the aflize and prices of the various kinds 

 of bread were therein promulgated, as alfo what relates to the prices ot the 

 three forts of wheat, wheaten, and houlehold flour, of rye and rye-meal ; 

 of barley and barley-meal ; of oats and oat-meal ; of white peas and 

 white pea-flour or meal ; and of beans and bean-flour. Sundry claufes 

 were alfo added, for preventing frauds in the prices of corn, flour, and 

 meal ; and for punifliing bakers who mix different forts of flour or meal 

 in their bread, or put into their bread any unwholfome ingredients. 

 [31 Geo. II, c. 29.] 



The harbour of Dover flill wanting additional improvements, which, 

 it is too much to be apprehended, it will ever want, notwithftanding 



