544 A. D. 1773. 



ported from Jamaica, after the i" of November 1773 was reduced from 

 ^i : 10 : o to 2/5 a head. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 73.] 



A flandard was prefcribed by law for the uniform m.eafurement of all 

 fliips or veirels, which were to pay duty, receive bounty, or be liable to 

 penalties or fei/Aire, in refpedt of their burthen. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 74.] 



Parliament gave the fum of /^2, 000 to Dodor Williams as a reward 

 for making public his invention of durable green and yellow colours for 

 dying cotton*. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 77.] 



The feveral a<5ts for the prefervation of the highways were reduced 

 into one ; and the feveral a6ls for regulating the turnpike roads were 

 alfo reduced into one. In thefe ads the furveyors of the roads are en- 

 joined to fet up and maintain mile-ftones, legible diredion-pofts at every 

 junction of the roads, graduated pofts at places liable to inundation, and 

 proper fences upon bridges and dangerous places. The weights of wag- 

 gons, to be afcertained by weighing engines, are determined for the 

 fummer and the winter feafons ; and all carts, waggons, and carriages 

 let for hire, are ordered to be confpicuoully marked with the owner's 

 name and the number. [13 Geo. Ill, cc. 78, 84.] 



Paper-makers, not employed by the bank, imitating the water-mark 

 of the bank-note paper, were made Hable to fuffer death. And in order 

 to prevent impofitions upon the ignorant by notes made in imitation or 

 refemblance of bank notes, no perfon is allowed to make any engraved 

 bill or promifTory note containing the words Bank of England, or Bank 

 pojl bill, or exprefling any fum in white letters on a black ground, under 

 penalty of imprifonment for fix months. [13 Geo. Ill, c. 79.] 



Several ads for improving fen lands, for canals, roads, inclofures, and 

 other improvements, were alfo palfed. 



Auguft The Britifh merchants in Dantzik having purchafed a quan- 

 tity of timber to be Ihipped home for the fervice of the admiralty, the 

 whole was feized by a company authorized by the king of Pruflia, and 

 conveyed to Elbing, at which, and fome other of his ports on the Baltic, 

 he was endeavouring to equip fome fhips of war, in order to become a 

 maritime power. 



Captain Phipps (now Lord Mulgrave) and Captain Lutwidge failed in 

 two fmall {hips of war in May, in order to make obfervations in the 

 polar regions. When they reached the latitude of 81° 39', their farther 

 progrefs was arretted by the ice, and they were in great danger of being 

 loft. As foon as they got difcngaged, they therefor made the beft of their 

 way home, and arrived in September. This voyage proves, if any fur- 

 ther proof be required, that the fpace between the old and the new 

 continent, though it is almoft certain that it is not barred by any ob- 



• The art of fixing beautiful and durable colours is of more importance to the profperity of our 

 inanufaftures than can eafily be conceived. 



