A. D. 1785. 



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ture, or to an amount 

 adequate to counter- 

 vail the duty on the 

 material, and fhall be 

 entitled to fuch draw- 

 backs or bounties on 

 exportation, as may 

 leave the fame fubjedl 

 to no heavier burdens 

 than the home-made 

 manufacture; fuch far- 

 ther duty to continue 

 fo long only as the 

 internal confumption 

 fhall be charged with 

 the duty or duties, to 

 balance which it fhall 

 be impofed, or until 

 the manufadure com- 

 ing from the other 

 kingdom fhall be fub- 

 jedted there to an equal 

 burden, not drawn 

 back, or compenfated 

 on exportation. 



VI) Refolved, that, 

 in order to give per- 

 manency to the fettle- 

 ment now intended to 

 be eftablifhed, it is ne- 

 cefTary, that no prohi- 

 bition, or new or addi- 

 tional duties, fhould be 

 hereafter impofed in 

 either kingdom on the 

 importation of any ar- 

 ticle of the growth, 

 produd, or manufac- 

 ture, of the other, ex- 

 cept fuch additional 

 duties as may be requi- 

 lite to balance duties 

 on internal confump- 

 tion, purfuant to the 

 foregoing refolution. 



time to time be made liable to fuch duties and 

 drawbacks, and put under fuch regulations, as 

 may be neceffary, in order that the fame may 

 not be exported with lefs incumbrance of duties 

 or impofition than the like goods fhall be bur- 

 dened with when exported from Great Britain. 

 IX) That it is eflential to the general com- 

 mercial interefls of the empire, that, fo long as 

 the parliament of this kingdom fhall think it 

 advifable, that the commerce to the countries 

 beyond the Cape of Good Hope fhall be carried 

 on folely by an exclufive company, having li- 

 berty to import into the port of London only, 

 no goods of the growth, produce, or manufac- 

 ture, of any countries beyond the Cape of Good 

 Hope fhould be importable into Ireland from 

 any foreign country, or from any fettlement in 

 the Eafl-Indies belonging to any fuch foreign 

 country ; and that no goods of the growth, pro- 

 duce, or manufadture, of the faid countries, 

 fliould be allowed to be imported into Ireland, 

 but through Great Britain ; and it fhall be law- 

 ful to export fuch goods of the growth, produce, 

 or manufafture, of any of the countries beyond 

 the Cape of Good Hope to the Straits of Ma- 

 gellan from Great Britain to Ireland, with the 

 fame duties retained thereon as are now retain- 

 ed on their being exported to that kingdom ; 

 but that an account fhall be kept of the duties 

 retained, and the net drawback on the find 

 goods imported to Ireland ; and that the amount 

 thereof fhall be remitted by the receiver-general 

 of his Majefty's cuftoms in Great Britain to the 

 proper officer of the revenue in Ireland, to be 

 placed to the account of his Majefly's revenue 

 there, fubjed to the difpofal of the parliament 

 of that kingdom ; and that, whenever the com- 

 merce to the faid countries fhall ceafe to be car- 

 ried on by an exclufive company in the goods 

 of the produce of countries beyond the Cape of 

 Good Hope to the Straits of Magellan, the 

 goods fhould be importable into Ireland from 

 countries from which they may be importable 

 to Great Britain and no other ; and that no 

 vefTel fhould be cleared out from Ireland for 



