A. D. 1765. 417 



The ifland of Mann, not having been hitherto fubjcdl to the Britifli 

 revenue laws, had been a magazine for the reception of India and other 

 foreign goods of all kinds, which were clandeflinely imported from 

 thence into Great Britain and Ireland. But, in confequence of the 

 purchafe of the fovereignty, it was now fubjeded to the controul of the 

 Britifh legidature ; which enadled, that after the id of June 1765 the 

 revenue officers fhould fearch all veflels arriving in that ifland, and 

 feize ud goods illegally imported, in the fame manner as in Great Bri- 

 tain ; that no foreign fpirits fliould be carried thither but from this 

 kingdom ; and that none (hould be brought into this kingdom from 

 thence. Several regulations for the coafting trade, &c. were alfo enact- 

 ed. [5 Geo. Iff, c. 39.] 



By an act, containing a multitude of regulations for rendering the 

 execution of the revenue laws more effectual, and the revenue more 

 produdtive, the linens manufactured in Mann were entitled to the fame 

 bounty on being fliipped from Great Britain, that Britifli and Irifh 

 linens are entitled to : and the people of Mann were allowed to import 

 into Great Britain the cattle and manufactures of the ifland, except 

 woollen manufactures, beer, and ale, without paying any duties on im- 

 portation. 



The fmugglers being deprived of their principal rcpofitory by the 

 ifland of Mann being fubjed:ed to the revenue laws, it became neceflar)-- 

 to cut off another means of defrauding the revenue and injuring the 

 fair trader, which was pradtifed by fliipping bounty goods for the iflands 

 of Faroe (or rather Foeroe), fubjecl to Denmark, and lying in the 

 Northern ocean between Shetland and Iceland, where a great deal of 

 fmuggling bulinefs has been carried on. Such goods having been of- 

 ten entered for thofe iflands with an intent to obtain the bounty or 

 drawback, and afterwards rclanded in fome part of Great Britain, it 

 was now enacted, that no bounty or drawback fliould be allowed upon 

 any goods to be fent thither ; and that any pcrlon entering goods for 

 bounty or drawback to be carried to other foreign countries, and not- 

 withflanding laiuling them in Faroe, fliould forfeit the bounty, three 

 times the value of the goods, and alfo the velfel which carried them. 

 [5 Geo. Ill, c. 43.] 



For fecuring and encouraging the trade of the American provinces, 

 large bounties were allowed on the importation of deals, planks, and 

 timber, the growth of thofe provinces. The liberty of exporting rice 

 to thofe parts of America fouth of Georgia, formerly granted to that 

 province and South Carolina, was extended to North Carolina. Rice 

 imported into Plymouth, Exeter, I*oolc, Southampton, Chichefter, Sand- 

 wich, and Glafgow, and intended to be immediately exported, was ex- 

 empted from paying any other duty than half the old fubfidy. The 



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