714 -A. D. 1782. 



of fuch printed goods verc imported, and, it being next to iinpoflible 

 to diftinguifh them from Britifli printed goods, the petitioners were in 

 danger of being ruined, and the trade and revenue of the kingdom 

 were in danger of being greatly injured. It was thereupon enad- 

 ed, that whofoever fhould entice any workmen employed in ])rint- 

 ing calicoes, cottons, muflins, or linens, or in making blocks, plates, 

 or utenfils, for fuch nianufadhire, to go beyond the fea, Ihould be 

 punifhed by a fine of ;{^50o, and alfo be imprifoned for twelve months ; 

 and, in cafe of a fecond offence, the fine and imprifonment fliould be 

 doubled. Any perfon found guilty of exporting blocks, plates, or uten- 

 fils, for the printing bufinefs, is alfo liable to a fine of ^"500 ; and com- 

 manders of vefiTels, knowingly fuffering fuch blocks, Sec. to be re- 

 ceived onboard their vefl^els are fubjeded to a penalty of £100. [22 

 Geo. Ill, c. 60.] 



An additional duty of three pence per pound, with five per cent on 

 the amount of the duty, was impofed on white, or manufactured, bee's 

 wax imported. [22 Geo. Ill, c. 61.] 



An addition of five per cent, upon all former duties upon goods 

 imported, exported, or carried by coafting navigation, and alfo upon 

 the excife duties, with fome exemptions, was voted by parliament. [22 

 Geo. Ill, c. 66.] 



An ad was paffed to prevent his Majefl:y's enemies from being fup- 

 phed with fhips or veflels from Great Britain. [22 Geo. Ill, c. 71.] 



The prohibition of importing foreign filks and velvets [Ad 6 Geo. Ill, 

 f. 28] was prolonged till 14"" June 1788. [22 Geo. HI, c. 72.] 



The ad, of the twelfth year of Charles II, againft cultivating tobacco 

 in England, was now declared to extend to Scotland. But, as feveral 

 people in Scotland, after the interruption of the American trade, had 

 planted tobacco *, all fuch tobacco, already cured, or now grou-ing, was 

 direded to be entered before the 20''' of Auguil: 1782 at the neareil 

 cufl:om-houfe, and the duties payable on the importation of American 

 tobacco, to be paid for it. The Scottifh tobacco was not permitted to 

 be carried by land into England, but might be carried thither by 

 water : and no drawback of duty was allowed on the exportation of it. 

 [22 Geo. III. c. 73.] 



As the drugs, produced in Hungary and Germany, ufed in times of 

 peace with the Dutch to be imported from Roterdam, fuch drugs were 

 now permitted to be brought from any port in the Auftrian Nether- 

 lands or Germany in Britilh-built vefl'els, and to be confidered, with 

 refped to the duties, as brought from the place of their growth. Wine 

 and organzined filk, the produce of Hungary, the Auflrian dominions, 



* Some tobacco was alfo planted in the county of Cork in Ireland, and the crop was worth ^^40 per 

 acre. \_Lord Sheffield' t cori/idcratlont on ^meritan trade, p. lc6, Jix:/) ft/.] 3 



