A. D. 1767. 461 



permitting rice from Carolina to be carried to any part of Europe fouth 

 of Cape Finiflerre, in fhips built in Great Britain, and navigated accord- 

 ing to law ; and alio that which prohibits the importation of books 

 printed abroad, and copied from books firft written and printed in this 

 kingdom. All thefe ads were prolonged till 29th September 1774. 



[-] Geo. IIU c. :^S-'] 



The free importation of cochineal and indigo, agreeable to the adt of 

 33 Geo. II, was continued. [7 Geo. Ill, c. ^6.'] 



The city of London, being engaged in building a bridge over the 

 Thames at Blackfriars, had borrowed ;/(^ 144,000 on the credit of the 

 tolls to be taken on it : and a further fum of ;/(?58,500 was eftimated to 

 be neceflary to finifh the bridge and its concomitant improvements ; as 

 alfo ^^7,500 for making an embankment on the north fide of the river, 

 from the weft fide of Powell's wharf near Puddle dock, to the eafl: 

 corner of Robert's wharf near Milford lane ; ;^5o,ooo for rebuilding 

 Newgate ; and ^^ 10,000 for repairing the royal exchange. It was now 

 enafted, that in due time the new bridge fliould be frred from the pay- 

 ment of the tolls taken upon it, and that London bridge fliould alfo be 

 freed from the tolls taken upon it : alfo that the city fhould pay annual- 

 ly /^8oo towards paving the ftreets of Wefiminfler, and /C480 towards 

 the pavement of the burgh of Southwark. And tor all thefe improve- 

 ments adequate funds were provided and apportioned. [7 Geo. Ill, c. 



The Englifli engravers having now arrived at a degree ot excellence, 

 which renders their works a confiderable objed of commerce, it becomes 

 proper to obfcrve, that the old ad [8 Geo. II, c. 13] for fecuring the pro- 

 perty of engravings, was found inefFedual againlt piracies upon their 

 property ; and it was now cnaded, that the proprietors of all plates of 

 hiftorical prints, portraits, maps, j^lans, or any other prints whatloever, 

 engraved after the tirfi; of January 1767, fliould have an exclufive right 

 to the fame for twenty-eight years from the day of publication, fo as to 

 prevent any copies from being engraved, printed, or imported for file, 

 provided the profecution is commenced within fix months after the 

 commiilion of the offence. And on this occafion Mrs. JHogarth, the 

 widow of the celebrated moral engraver, was indulged with an extra 

 term, of about fix years, in the exclufive property of the works of her 

 late hufband ; excepting only that copies made from theprint.s, of which 

 the exclufive property was already expired agreeable to the former ad, 

 might ftill be lold. [7 Geo. Ill, c. 38.] 



For the protedion and prcfervation of the roads, the weight to be 

 carried in the feveral l:inds of carts and waggons, was regulated accord- 

 ing to the nature of their wheels : and weighing engines were ordered 

 to be conflrudcd at the turnpikes. Among a great number of regula- 

 tions for the benefit of the roads, rhf*. eflablifhment of guide-pofts, con- 



