A. D. 1778. 



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* duties as it may be expedient to impofe for the regulation of com- 



* merce ; the net produce of fuch duties to be always paid and applied 

 ' to and for the ufe of the colony, province, or plantation, in which 

 ' the fame (hall be refpectively levied, in fuch manner as other duties 

 ' collected by the authority of the refpedive general courts, or gen- 

 ' eral affemblies of fuch colonies, provinces, or plantations, are or- 

 ' dinarily paid and applied.' The duty payable upon tea in North 

 America (by ad 7 Geo. Ill, c. 46) was alfo repealed [18 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 12.] 



Moreover parliament empowered the king to appoint five commif- 

 fioners to go to America, and there to treat with any perfons whatfoever 

 concerning the redrefs of any grievances exifting, or fuppofed to exift, 

 in the government of the colonies, or the laws of this country refpedl- 

 ing them, and concerning any aid to be furnifhed by any of the colonies 

 for the common defence of this realm and the dominions thereunto be- 

 longing. Thofe commiflioners were authorized to order a ceflation of 

 hoflilities, to fufpend the operation of any law relating to America paff- 

 ed fince the 10'" of February 1763, to grant pardons, and to cftablifli 

 government in the king's name. [18 Geo. Ill, c. 13,] 



In confequence of this adt five commiflioners were appointed 

 (April 13"'), who finding the congrefs firmly determined againfl; en- 

 tering into any negotiation with them, which fliould tend to efla- 

 blilh a dependence of the colonies upon Great Britain, foon return- 

 ed home. 



A new adt was pafil'd, permitting the exportation of limited quanti- 

 ties of corn, &c. for the ufe of the fifheries at Newfoundland, Nova- 

 Scotia, and Labrador, from the following ports, viz. * 



London, _ - _ 



Briftol, 



Poole, - - - 



Dartmouth, 



Topfham and Teignmouth, 



Barn fla pic, 



Liverpool, 



Weymouth, 



Cheftor, 



[l8 G^o. ///, r. 16.] 



The duty of one halfpenny on every chaldron of coals fliipped at 

 Newcaftle and Sunderland, impofed for the improvement of the harbour 

 of Scarburgh , and alfo fome duties on the trade of that port impolld 



• The fpccificatioii of thcfe quantities of proYifion* may fcfTC to ftiow the proportion of the 

 fifhing trade of cacli of ihc tuvvni. 



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