A. D. 1764. 401 



twenty days being allowed for their determination before the importer 

 could be at liberty to fell it to a private buyer. [4 Geo. Ill, c. 26.] 



Rice was allowed to be carried from South Carolina and Georgia, in 

 veflels belonging to Britilh fubjefts, di redly to any part of America 

 fouthward of Georgia, on paying one half fubfidy, which was equivalent 

 to the duty remaining, if the rice were brought to Britain and re-fhip- 

 ped on a drawback. [4 Geo. Ill, c. 27.] 



In order to prevent provifions from being raifed to an exorbitant 

 price, the king was empowered, with the advice of his privy council, to 

 permit the importation of falted beef, pork, bacon, and butter, from 

 Ireland, fuch provifions paying at landing a duty on the fait employed 

 in curing them. [4 Geo. Ill, c. 28.] 



For the encouragement of the whale filTiery in the River St. Laurence, 

 the fins of whales, caught in that river, and on the coafts of Britifli 

 America, were allowed to be imported on paying only the old fubfidy 

 direded by the ad 25 Car. 11, c. 7. [4 Geo. Ill, c. 29.] 



Whereas fome merchants, bankers, and other traders, within the fl;a- 

 tutes i-elating to bankrupts, having privilege of parliament, had claim- 

 ed exemption from the bankrupt laws, it was now enaded, that fuch 

 traders fliould be liable to a commilfion of bankruptcy as well as others. 

 [4 Geo. Ill, c. 33.] 



The Englifh linen company was eflabliflied as a corporate body, 

 chiefly for the purpofe of makuig cambrics and lawns of the kind call- 

 ed French lawns, with a joint capital flock which fliould not exceed 

 /^ 1 00,000. The goods, in order to certify them to be of Englifli ma- 

 nufidure were to be fealed at each end of the piece by proper oflUcers, 

 before they were taken out of the loom. [4 Geo. Ill, c. 37.] 



A great improvement in the fpinning wheel, whereby a child may 

 fpin twice as much as a grown perfon can do with the common wheel, 

 was invented by Mr. Harrifon, for which the patriotic fociety for the 

 encouragement of arts and commerce gave him a premium of fifty 

 pounds. 



The convention of royal burghs of Scotland reprefented to the king, 

 that the agriculture and manuhiolures of the country recjuired the la- 

 bour of all the working hands in it, and therefor prayed he would re- 

 voke a licence that had been given to the Dutch of recruiting their ar- 

 my in Scotland. The country muft be in a wretched condition indeed, 

 which exports its natives. Such is the condition ot a great jxu't of 

 Africa. But may it never more be fuch of any part of the Brituh do- 

 minions. 



During the war a veflcl belonging to Liverpool, having parted with 

 her convoy, was taken by the enemy ; wliereupon the owners applied to 

 the und(.rvvriters for her value, who refufed to pay it. On the matter 

 being brought before Lord chiefjuflice Pratt (afterwards Lord Camden) 



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