A. D. 1780. 659 



fuch importation, were removed by parliament, and the tobacco im- 

 ported in Britifli veffels admitted to entry during the prefent hoftilities 

 on payment of i— penny per pound of additional duty. [20 Geo. Ill, 



c- 39-] 



An a6l was pafled, for laying feveral additional duties on goods carried 

 from Britain to the illand of Mann ; for allowing a drawback on teas 

 carried to it; for allowing veffels, not under 70 tuns*, carrying her- 

 rings from Mann to Madeira and the Mediterranean, to import wines 

 of any country, except France, direcfl to Mann ; and containing alfo 

 feveral other regulations for the trade and filhery of that ifland. 

 [20 Geo. Ill, c. 42.] 



The na\'igation adt was fo far difpenfed with, that every member of 

 the Turkey company was allowed to import into Great Britain or Ire- 

 land in neutral veffels the goods ufually brought from the Turkifli 

 dominions till the i" of June 1781 ; the danger of capture being fo 

 great, that the trade could not otherways be carried on. Cotton, 

 imported in foreign veffels, was made liable to a duty of 1-/3- penny per 

 pound, without being entitled to any drawback on exportation. [20 

 Geo. Ill, c. 45.] 



Such places in America as were under the protedion of the Britifli 

 arms were allowed to have a free commercial intercourfe with Great 

 Britain, Ireland, or any of the colonies acknowleging the fovereignty of 

 the mother country. [20 Geo. Ill, c. 46.] 



Lord North made a motion in the houfe of commons, (21" March) 

 that notice fhould be given to the Eaft-India company of the intention 

 of parliament to pay off the capital ftock or debt of ^^4, 200,000, to- 

 gether with the intereft upon it, due by the public to the company, on 

 the 5''' of April 1783 agreeably to the power of redemption in the acl 

 of parliament, and the ftipulation of three years' notice; after which the 

 company's exclufive privilege would expire. He faid, he had expeded, 

 that the company would have made fome fuitable offer of terms for the 

 renewal of their charter ; but, though the time was fo near, when it 

 would be neceffiry for government to give notice of repayment, no pro- 

 pofal had hitherto been offered on the part of the company, which came 

 near to the expedtation, or right, of the public, who were entitled either 

 to the whole of the territorial acquificions and revenues, or, if the com- 

 pany were permitted to retain the monopoly of the trade, to a partici- 

 pation of the profits. 



The terms propofed by the minifter for a renewal of the company's 

 exclufive privilege were, that they fliould pay down ;{^i, 000,000, and 

 alfo account to the public for three fourths of all the furplus of the 

 profits of their trade above a dividend oi eight per cent, which they were 



* Till now no vcfTcU under loo luns could import wines into the ifland. 



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