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APPENDIX III. CORN LAWS 



1814. 54 Geo. III. c. 69, from 17th June. Corn, grain, meal, and flour 

 (bread and biscuit added by Treasury Order), to be exported at all times 

 without payment of duty, and without receiving any bounty. 



1815. 55 Geo. III. c. 26, from March 23. Foreign and colonial corn, meal, 

 or flour might be at all times imported, and warehoused, without payment 

 of duties ; but it could only be taken out of warehouse for home consumption, 

 or entered for the like purpose on importation, whenever the prices of British 

 corn should be at or above the following sums, and then duty free : 



1822. Table of duties payable by Act 3 George IV. c. 60, on wheat when 

 admitted for home consumption : 



The importation of other grain was regulated by proportionate prices 

 and duties. 



1825. 6 Geo. IV. c. 64 (temporary). The prohibitions and restrictions 

 upon the importation of wheat, the produce of the British possessions in 

 North America, and the duties payable thereon, under the Acts of 1815 and 

 1822, were suspended from 22nd June, 1825, until the end of the then next 

 session of Parliament, during which period such wheat might be entered for 

 home consumption, whatever might be the average price of British corn, on 

 payment of a duty of 5s. per quarter. (The provisions of this Act expired 

 in July, 1827.) 



1828. 9 Geo. IV. c. 60. The duties on wheat imported from any foreign 

 country were as follows : When the average price of wheat is 



66s. and under 67s., the duty to be 20s. 8d. per quarter. 



67s. 

 68s. 

 69s. 

 70s. 

 71s. 

 72s. 

 at or above 



68s. 

 69s. 

 70s. 

 71s. 

 72s. 

 73s. 

 73s. 



16s. 

 13s. 

 10s. 



6s. 



2s. 



Is. 



8d. 

 8d. 

 8d. 

 8d. 

 8d. 

 8d. 

 Od. 



