488 A. D. 1769. 



America all goods of the growth or manufadure of Great Britain ne- 

 <:eflary for the fifhery, under certain reftridtions, and to import to thofc 

 iflands any non-enumerated goods, except rum. [9 Geo. Ill, c. 28.] 



Burning mills, and deflroying or damaging engines for draining any 

 kind of mines, or the waggon-ways, bridges, trunks, ftaithes, &c. or 

 fences belonging to any mine, were made felony without benefit of 

 clergy, [9 Geo. Ill, c. 29.] 



The encouragement hitherto held out to the cultivators of filk in the 

 fouthern American colonies, by purchafmg the cocoons for government 

 at a price above their value, having been found to effect no confiderable 

 exertions in the production of that article, it was now determined, that 

 the encouragement fhould be in the form of a bounty upon the import- 

 ation of filk produced in America into Great Britain in velTels legally 

 navigated, as follows. 



from 1^ Jan. 1770 to i*^ Jan. 1777 a premium of 25 per cent, 

 from \^ Jan. 1777 to i"* Jan. 1784 20 per cent, 



and from i'^ Jan. 1784 to i*^ Jan. 17 91 15 per cent, 



on the value of the filk. [9 Geo. Ill, c. •jS.] 



The importation of raw hides and Ikins from Ireland and the Britifli 

 colonies in America free of duty was permitted for five years ; and the 

 duty upon feal ikins, tanned or tawed, was alrered to three halfpence 

 a pound, of which one penny to be drawn back upon exportation. 

 [9 Geo. Ill, c. 39.] 



The mode of paying the prizes in the lottery was this year altered. 

 Infl;ead of giving the proprietors of the fortunate tickets annuities in 

 the funds proportioned to the fum of their prizes, government now en- 

 gaged to pay the value in cafti. Inftead of limiting the hi2;hefi; prize to 

 X^ro,ooo, one or two prizes of /^20,ooo, and feveral of /?i 0,000, were 

 now mtroduced*. 



The Eaft-India company loft no time in availing themfelves of the 

 permifiion contained in the late a6t to augment their dividend one per 

 cent ; and their dividend for July was accordingly paid at the rate of 

 eleven per cent. 



July 10''' — The ifland of St. John in the Gulf of St. Laurence was de- 

 tached from the government of Nova-Scotia \ and the king appointed 

 Walter Paterfon Efquire to be the firft governor of it. Settlers had be- 

 gun to refort to this ifland the preceding fummer ; a town plot was laid 

 out ; and great hopes were entertained of the profperity of the colony. 



General Carlton, governor of CXiebec, fent home a report of the ma- 

 nufactures in his provinces, which confifted of the following articles. 



* Succeeding lotteries have had one, and fre- in order to hold out temptations to avarice, and to 



qiiently even two,' prizes of ^30,000; and in ge- enlarge the chance of rich prizes remaining in the 



heral it has been the policy of the lottery fchemes wheel till late in the drawing. 

 fo throw the moft of the money into great prizes, 



