522 A. D. 1772. 



are at liberty to build any vefiel •whatever in India or the colonics, or to 

 charter any vefTel built in India or the colonies *. [12 Geo. Ill, c. 54.] 

 In order to prevent the clandeftinc importation of goods from Ire- 

 land, it was enaded, that after the 5'' of July 1772 no rum, fugar, cof- 

 fee, nor other goods prohibited to be imported from Ireland to Great 

 Britain, fliould be entered outwards in Ireland for Great Britain. Any 

 perfon landing goods in Britain, which had been entered in Ireland for 

 exportation to a foreign country, forfeits the vefTel and triple the value 

 of the goods. In order to prevent fmuggling Britifli plantation rum, 

 &c. the importation of it to Ireland in velTcls under feventy tuns after 

 the 29'** of September was prohibited on penalty of forfeiture of the 

 veflel: and the importation of foreign brandy, rum, or other fpirits, into 

 Ireland in veffels under a hundred tuns, beyond two gallons for each 

 man onboard, fubjeds the veflels and alfo the brandy, 8cc. to forfeiture. 



[\z Geo. Ill, CSS-'] 



The expiring ads — for granting an allowance on the exportation of 

 Britifh gun-powder ; — for the free importation of lumber from the 

 American colonies ; — for encouraging the manufadure of Britifh fail- 

 cloth ; — for allowing fugars to be carried dired from the Britifh fugar 

 colonies to foreign parts in fhips built in Great Britain, and navigated 

 according to law ; — and for permitting the free importation of cattle 

 from Ireland, were all continued till the 29"' of September 1778, and 

 thence, as ufual, to the end of the next feflion of parliament. [12 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 56.] 



The ad 26 Geo. II, c. 6, was explained and amended fo far as it re- 

 lates to the eftablifhment of lazarets for the reception of perfons and 

 goods liable to quarantine. [12 Geo. Ill, c. 57.] 



For the better encouragement of the herring fifhery on the coaft of 

 the ifle of Mann, the importation into Great Britain of herrings, cer- 

 tified by the governor of the ifland and the cuftom-houfe officers to be 

 really caught and cured in that ifland, was allowed after the 24'*^ of 

 June 1772, on payment of 2f'^■ P^r barrel of 32 gallons for fait her- 

 rings, and iy8 per thoufand for red herrings. In the fame ad fome 

 doubts refpeding the bounties on the herring fifhery are explained. 

 [12 Geo. Ill, c. 58.] 



To promote the exportation of tea, and prevent the fupply of it by 

 clandeftine trade, three fifths of the duties were allowed to be drawn 

 back upon all teas exported to Ireland or the Britifh colonies in Ame- 

 rica in the original packages, and in veflels not under the burthen of 

 eighty tons. In order to give Britifh fugars a preference in the Irifh 



* Many people, acquainted with the ftate of fervicea'ble timber. One gentleman went fo far a$ 



the oak woods tlirough different parts of the king, to fay, that we were in danger of being no longer 



dom, had lately affetted, that there was every- a maritime nation, 



where an alarming diminutiom of the quantity of 4 



