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product, or manufadure, of the other ; except in the cafe of materials 

 of manufadures, which are, or hereafter may be, allowed to be import- 

 ed from foreign countries duty free ; and that in all cafes where any 

 articles are, or may be, fubjed to higher duties on importation into this 

 kingdom from the countries belonging to any of the ftates of North 

 America, than the like goods are, or may be fubjed to, when imported 

 as the growth, produce, or manufadure, of the Britifh colonies and plant- 

 ations, or as the produce of the fifheries carried on by Britifh fub- 

 jeds, fuch articles fhall be fubjed to the fame duties on importation 

 into Ireland from the countries belonging to any of the ftates of North 

 America as the fame are, or may be, fubjed to on importation from the 

 faid countries into this kingdom. 



XVII) That it is expedient, that meafures fhould be taken to pre- 

 vent difputes touching the exercife of the right of the inhabitants of 

 each kingdom to fifh on the coaft of any part of the Britifh dominions. 



XVIII) That it is expedient, that fuch privileges of printing and 

 vending books, as are, or may be, legally poflelTed within Great Britain 

 under the grant of the crown or otherwife, and the copy-rights of the 

 authors and bookfellers of Great Britain, fliould continue to be proted- 

 ed, in the manner they are at prefent, by the laws of Great Britain ; 

 and that it is juft, that meafures fhould be taken by the parliament of 

 Ireland for giving the like protedion to the copy-rights of the au- 

 thors and bookfellers of that kingdom. 



XIX) That it is expedient, that regulations fhould be adopted with 

 refped to patents, to be hereafter granted for the encouragement of new 

 inventions, fo that the rights, privileges, and reftridions, thereon grant- 

 ed and contained, fhall be of equal duration and force throughout Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



XX) That the appropriation of whatever fum the grofs hereditary reve- 

 nue of the kingdom of Ireland (the due colledion thereof being fecur- 

 ed by permanent provilions) fliall produce, after deduding all draw- 

 backs, repayments, or bounties granted in the nature of drawbacks, 

 over and above the fum of fix hundred and fifty-fix thoufand pounds 

 in each year, towards the fupport of the naval force of the empire, to 

 be applied in fuch manner as the parliament of Ireland fhall dired by an 

 ad to be pafTed for that purpofe, will be a fatisfadory provifion, pro- 

 portioned to the growing profperity of that kingdom, towards defraying 

 in time of peace the neceflary expenfes of proteding the trade and 

 general interefts of the empire. 



Though thefe propofitions were generally difliked on this fide of the 

 water, as conferring too great advantages on the trade of Ireland, they 

 had not the good fortune to meet with a better reception in that coun- 

 try, where they were confidered by mod of the people as fiKrificing the 



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