on French wine exported 

 on other wine exported 



to the Eaft-Iiidics 



9 17 o 



to any other place. 



5 13 o 



A. D. 1786. 107 



The ad for a bounty on the importation of hemp and undreiled tiax 

 from the Britifli colonies in America, continued till 24"" Tune 1806 

 [26 Geo. Ill, c. 53.] 



In an ad for amending the India regulating acl [24 Geo. III., c. 25] 

 new rules were laid down for conducing trials for offences committed 

 in India : the fedion, compelling^ the fervants of the company return- 

 ing from India to deliver inventories of their property, was repealed : 

 and the governors and judicatures in India were empowered to feize the 

 perfons and property of interlopers, and to proceed to judgement upon 

 them. [26 Geo. Ill, c. 57.] 



June 27'" — Several of the duties, payable upon the importation of 

 foreign wines, were now repealed. In addition to the tunnage, pound- 

 age, and other fubfidies, &c. not repealed by this ad, £^^ : 14 : o per 

 tun on French wines, and £1'] : 17 : o per tun on all other wines, were 

 irapofed : and thefe duties were put under the management of the com- 

 miHioners of excife. From thefe duties there were allowed drawbacks 

 on exportation, 



to Araerita 



£^9 »3 



14 7 



A multitude of other regulations were at the fame time enaded to 

 prevent frauds upon the revenue in the wine trade. [26 Geo. Ill, c. 59.] 



For the encouragement of Britifli (hipping it was enaded, that after 

 the i" day of Auguft 1786 no vefl!el fhould be accounted Britilh, luilefs 

 fhe were built in the Britifli dominions, or taken as a prize. Every 

 decked veflel of the burthen of fifteen tuns or more muft have her bur- 

 then (or meafurement) accurately aicertained according to a prefcribed 

 rule for determining the length of the keel, which multiplied by the 

 breadth, and the produd by half the breadth, all in feet, and that pro- 

 dud divided by 94, gives the legal number of tuns. Her name, with 

 that of the port fhe belongs to, muft be confpicuoufly painted upon her 

 ftern. And a regifter muft be taken out for her, wherein muft be de- 

 fcribed very accurately her dimenfions, burthen, built, rig, the port fhe 

 belongs to, the names of the owners, who muft all refide in the Britifh 

 dominions (unlefs feme of them are members of Britilh fadories, or 

 partners in Britiili mercantile houfes, refiding abroad, and adually trad- 

 ing with Great Britain or Ireland) the name of the commander, toge- 

 ther with every other diftinguifhing particular, the moft minute. The 

 name of a veflel muft upon no account be altered ; and every change 

 of the property, or of the commander, muft be indorfed upon the cer- 

 tificate of regiftry, and alfo entered in the book of regifters kept at the 

 port fhe belongs to. If veflels are railed upon, or lengthened, new cer- 

 tificates muft be obtained. The proper officer at every port is direded 

 to fend a copy of every regifter to the cuftom-houfe at London or Edin- 



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