A. D. 1785. 



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bounty fliould be grant- 

 ed in this kingdom on 

 the exportation of any 

 article imported from 

 the Britifh plantations, 

 or any manufacture 

 made of fuch article, 

 unlefs in cafes where 

 a fimilar bounty is pay- 

 able in Britain on ex- 

 portation from thence, 

 or where fuch bounty 

 is merely in the nature 

 of a drawback, or com- 

 penfation of or for du- 

 ties paid over and 

 above any duties paid 

 thereon in Britain. 



IX) Refolved, That 

 it is expedient for the 

 general benefit of the 

 Britifli empire, that 

 the importation of ar- 

 ticles from foreign 

 ftates fhould be regul- 

 ated from time to time 

 in each kingdom, on 

 fuch terms as may af- 

 ford an effedtual pre- 

 ference to the import- 

 ation of fimilar articles 

 of the growth, pro- 

 duce, or manufacture, 

 of the other. - 



X) Refolved, That it 

 is eflential to the com- 

 mercial interefls of this 

 country to prevent, as 

 much as pollible, an 

 accumulation of na- 

 tional debt; that there- 

 for it is highly expedi- 

 ent, that the annual 

 revenue of this king- 



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fliould be reduced in the kingdom, where they 

 are higheft, to an amount not exceeding the 

 amount payable in the other ; fo that the fame 

 fliall not be lefs than ten and a half per cent, 

 where any article was charged with a duty on 

 importation into Ireland of ten and a half per 

 cent or upwards, previous to the i y'"" day of 

 May 1782 ; and that all fucli articles fliould be 

 exportable from the kingdom, into which they 

 fliall be imported, as free from duty as the 

 fimilar commodities or home manufadures of 

 the fame kingdom. 



XII) That it is alfo proper, that in all cafes 

 where the articles of the confumption of either 

 kingdom fliall be charged with an internal duty 

 on the manufaClure, the faid manufacture, when 

 imported from the other, may be charged with 

 a farther duty on importation, adequate to 

 countervail the internal duty on the manufac- 

 ture as far as relates to the duties now charged 

 thereon ; fuch farther duty to continue fo long 

 only as the internal confumption fliall be charged 

 with the duty or duties, to balance which it 

 fliall be impofed ; and that, where there is a 

 duty on the importation of the raw material of 

 any manufaClure in one kingdom, greater than 

 the like duty on raw materials in the other, 

 fuch manufadure may, on its importation into 

 the other kingdom, be charged with fuch a 

 countervailing duty as may be fuflicient to fub- 

 ject the fame, fo imported, to burdens adequate 

 to thofe, which the manufacture compofed of 

 the like raw material is fubjed; to, in confe- 

 quence of duties on the importation of fuch 

 material in the kingdom, into which fuch ma- 

 nufacture is lo imported ; and the faid manu- 

 fadure, fo imported, fliall be entitled to fuch 

 drawbacks or bounties on exportation, as may 

 leave the fame lubjed to no heavier burden 

 than the home-made nianufadure. 



XIII) That, in order to give permanency to 

 the fettlement now intended to be eflabliflied, 

 it is neceflary, that no new or additional duties 

 fliould be hereafter impofed in either kingdom 



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