49^ A. D. 1770. 



three and a half per cent, with a condition, in the option of parliament, 

 to be repaid any time after the expiration of fifteen years computed 

 from the 11'' of February 1756; which fum was accordingly now or- 

 dered to be paid off at. the bank on the 12"' of February 1771. [10 

 Geo. Ill, c. 36.] 



Tilt" encouragement given to the cultivation of indigo in the Britifjj 

 colonies in America was continued till the 25 ** of March 1777. [10 

 Geo. Ill, c. 37.] 



The permiilion to import linen yarn, and the bounty of three half- 

 pence a yard on the exportation of Britifli and Irifh linens not exceed- 

 ing i/O per yard in value, were continued till 24''' June 1778. A new 

 bounty of one halfpenny per yard was allowed upon Britifh checqued 

 and ftriped linens, not Icfs than 25 inches in breadth, and from 7^/ to 1/6 

 in value : and the bounty of three halfpence was extended to fheetings 

 and table linens above yard-wide, to be computed on the fqviare yard, 

 fo that the value do not exceed ifS the fquare yard. In order to pre- 

 vent finer linens from being entered for the bounty, the officers of the 

 cufloms are empowered to take to thenifelves fuch linens on paying the 

 proprietor one penny a yard above the invoice price. The bounties al- 

 lowed by this aft are ordered to be paid without any fee, reward, or de- 

 dudion whatfoever. [10 Geo, III, c. 38.] 



In order to encourage the cultivation of hemp and flax in this king- 

 dom, additional duties had been laid on foreign linens [7 Geo. HI, c. 58] 

 to conftitute a fund not exceeding /^ 15, 000 a year. It was now enabl- 

 ed that ^8,000 of that fum fhould be appropriated to thofe purpofes in 

 England ; and no lefs than ^^7,000 a year for the fame purpofes Ihould 

 be put under the management of the trufl:ees for fiflieries and manufac- 

 tures in Scotland. If the allotted funds fliould fall fhort, England 

 (hould have eight fifteenths, and Scotland feven fifteenths of the money 

 colleded*. [10 Geo. Ill, c. 40.] 



Whereas a regifter of the prices of corn in the feveral counties in 

 Great Britain was thought generally ufeful, the juftices of peace were 

 diredted to give orders at their firft quarter fellions after the 29''' of 

 September in every. year for returns to be made weekly of the prices of 

 every kind of grain, and to caufe a ftandard Winchefter bufhel of eight 

 gallons to be kept at each market town. The returns are to be tranf- 

 mitted to the trcafury, and there to be regiflered in a book kept for 

 that purpofe, an abftradt of which is ordered to be publifhed weekly in 

 the London gazette. It was alfo enafted, that a regifter fhould be kept 

 of the quantities of corn exported and imported, with the amount of the 

 bounties paid, and duties received, on the fame, to be made up from re- 



• It appears by the tlilrteentti Report of the been made in England for any premiums for raif- 

 oomuiiffioners for examining tlie public accounts, ing hemp and flax ; and that fome payments had 

 dated 18"* March 1785, that no claims had then been made in Scotland on that account. 



