A. D. 1773. 545 



fadure, of Great Britain to the amount of £y6i,6j4. between 29"" Sep- 

 tember 1773 and 29"^ September 1775, exclufive of military and naval 

 ftores, and of all exportation by the company's fervants, or by private 

 traders licenced by the company. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 64.] 



Paper printed, painted, or ftained, was permitted to be imported after 

 the i"of Auguft 1773 on paying, in addition to the cuftoms already 

 impofed, a duty of one penny-halfpenny per fquare yard, which is the 

 the duty charged upon fuch paper manufadured at home. Paper of 

 the manufacture of India imported by the Eaft-India company is ex- 

 empted from this duty. [13 Geo III, c. 67.] 



July i" — The magiflraces of London (for the city) and thejuftices of 

 Middlefcx were empowered to fettle the wages of journeymeu lilk- 

 weavers, after the i" of July 1773. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 68.] 



' Whereas the preventing the currency of clipped and unlawfully di- 

 ' miniihed and counterfeit money is a more effectual means to preferve 



* the coin of this kingdom entire and pure, than the moft rigorous laws 



* for the punifliment of fuch as diminifh or counterfeit the fame; and 



* whereas, by the known laws of this kingdom, no perfon ought to pay, 



* or knowingly tender in payment, any counterfeit or unlawfully dimi- 

 ' nifhed money, and all perfons may not only refufe the fame, but 

 ' may, and by the antient ftatutes and ordinances of this kingdom have 

 ' been required to dcflroy and deface the fame,' and the ad [9, 10 

 Will. Ill] which provided againfl the currency of clipped and counter- 

 feit filver, having rruide no provilion concerning gold money, all per- 

 fons to whom gold money is tendered, and who fufpect the fame to be 

 counterfeit or diminilhed beyond the ul'ual effeds of wearing, are em- 

 powered to break or cut fuch pieces, the lofs falling on the perfon ten- 

 dering, if the money is bad, but if found good, on the perfon cutting 

 it*. [r3 Geo. Ill, c. 71.] 



Cod, ling, and hake, caught in Chaleiir bay, or on the coaft of La- 

 brador, were permitted to be imported into Great Britain in Britilh 

 veflels lawfully navigated, on the fame terms as lifli from Newfoundland 

 into Ireland. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 72.] 



The free pores opened in Dominica {by the a6i 6 Geo. Ill, c. 49] were 

 continued free till the 1" of November 1780, and thofe in Jamaica till 

 the i" of November 1774. Cacao and coffee, the produce of Dominica, 

 were allowed to be imported, either in or out of the huik, after the 

 i" of November 1773, on the fame terms as the fugar and rum of that 

 ifland; as was alfo any coffee in the hufk, the produce of any other of 

 the colonies. The duty on negro (laves imported into Dominica, or ex- 



* In a few week* after, the b.ink, nt the re- dom in quantities of not lefs than fifty guineas at 

 queft of the lorja of the trcafiiry, Lcijau to take jC3 • '7 • ^^ P'^ ounce, 

 io the cut and defaced gulj money of this king- 



