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A. D. 1785. 



There belonged this year to all the ports . 



of England - 7,926 veflels of the reputed burthen of 75 1 ,626 tuns 



and of Scotland 1,827 



- 107,980 



Totals 9,753 _ _ 859,606 



There were entered this year in all the ports of Great Britain, from 

 and to foreign countries, including repeated voyages, 



Inward 

 Outward 



Brhidi 



Veflels. 

 10,118 

 11,293 



Tuns. 

 1,077,681 

 1,115,022 



:: oreign 



Vclieh 



1,686 

 1,022 



Tuns. 



186,675 

 121,197 



Total. 



Veflels. 



11,911 



12,609 



Tuns. 

 1,241,761 

 1,182,479 



The net amount of the cuftoms, including the Wefl India four-and-a- 

 half-per-cent duty, paid into the exchequer in the courfe of the year, was 

 from the cuftom-houfe in London - ;C4.472,09i 13 3 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh 



120,000 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain * £^,5g2,ogi 13 3 



There were coined at the mint in the courfe of this year 

 53,250 pounds of gold, value - - ;^2,488,io6 5 o 



and no filver. 



1786, March 3'' ^The permiflion to import bread, flour, Indian corn, 



and live ftock, from the United ftates to Newfoundland and the adjacent 

 iflands in Britifli veflels, furniftied with hcences for that efpecial purpofe, 

 was extended to the 30"' of June 1787. [26 Geo. III^ c. i.'\ 



March 24'" — The taxes upon retail fliops in houfes of lefs rent than 

 thirty pounds a-year were lowered. [26 Geo. Ill, c. 9.] 



The rapid increafe of the flourifliing commercial town of Liverpool 

 calling for feveral new accommodations and improvements, an aci was 

 pafl^ed for additional market places, for making new ftreets and widen- 

 ing old ones, fupplying the town with wholefome water, regulating- 

 hackney coachmen, porters, -carters, &c. [26 Geo. Ill^ c. 12.] 



May 22'' — As the ad [15 Geo. IIJ,c. 31] for the encouragement of 

 the Newfoundland fifliery was foon to expire, it was thought expedient to 

 renew it with increafed bounties. It was therefor now enaded, that 

 during ten years after the 1'' of January 1787 the firft two hundred 

 veflels, which fliould land upon the coaft of Newfoundland, a cargo 

 of at leaft 10,000 fifli from each veflel, caught entirely by the crew of 

 the veflel on or before the 15th of July in each year, and proceed again 

 to the fifliing banks, and fo return to the ifland with a fecond cargo 

 of filli, ftiould receive the following bounties, viz. 



* The confiderable increafe of the cuftoms this year was in a great meafure owing to arrears paid 

 'ip by the Eall-India company, which were due upon their imports of 1782 and 1783. 



