A. D. 1787. 123 



intercourfe with the United ftates of America, were continued in force. 

 The importation of flour, bread, rice, wheat, and other grains, and lum- 

 ber, from the foreign Weil-India iflands to the Britifh Weft-India iflands 

 (including the Bahama and Bermuda iflands *) was prohibited ; unlefs 

 in cafes of emergency or diftrefs, when the governor and council of any 

 ifland might allow the importation for a hmited time. All produce of 

 the United ftates imported contrary to law, or to the orders of the king 

 in council, was to be forfeited together with the veflTel importing it. 

 The duration of this a6t was only till the 5'" of April 1788. [27 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 7.] 



For the accommodation of the trade with Ireland, poft-office packets 

 were eftabliflied between Milford-haven and Waterford. [27 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 9.] 



April 5"* — The adl of the laft fefllon for the encouragement of the fifli- 

 ery having limited the bounty to decked veflels of not lefs than fifteen 

 tuns burthen, built after the i" of January 1780, it was now extended 

 to all veflels whatfoever, built in Great Britain, and employed in the 

 fiftiery, according to the diredions of the ad. The ad having left it 

 doubtful, what is to be underftood by a full cargo, it was declared to 

 mean at leaft four barrels of fea fteeks, or three barrels of repacked her- 

 rings completely cured, for every tun of the vefl^el's burthen. Every 

 decked vefl^el built in Great Britain, of not lefs than fifteen tuns burthen, 

 having caught, by filhing in the deep fea between the i" of January and 

 the 31" of December, fix barrels of herrings completely cured, either as 

 white or red, for every tun of her burthen, is entitled to the tunnage 

 bounty of 20/, and the further bounty of 1/ for every barrel of herrings, 

 though ftie may not have carried the prefcribed quantity of nets, fair, 

 and barrels. The chief officer of the port is direded to take an account 

 of the quantity of herrings delivered from each veflTel not furniflied with 

 the requifite quantity of nets, &c. No more than fifty veflels fitted out 

 from any one port, with lefs than the requifite quantity of nets, &c. arc 

 entitled to bounty in one year ; and, when there are more veflTels, the 

 fifty having the greateft quantity of herrings are to have the bounty f. 

 [27 Geo. Ill, c. 10.] 



April 25'" — The many additions of cufl:omsto cuftoms, excife to excife, 



♦ When all America north of the Gulf of Mexi- in all England, received this bounty, which in thefc 



CO belonged to Great Britain, thefe iflands. In tht ten years amounted to ^^17,904 : lo : 6. The 



geography of the cujlomhoufe, were a part of that Scottilh vefTels being fliarp built, and much more 



continent. lumbered with boats and provifions for a longer 



f It appears by Mr. Irving's official account voyage, it was not poffible for them even to Jlow 



prefented to the committee of the houfc of com- fix barrels for every tun of their burthen : and, ac- 



mons, that in the courfe of ten years (1787-1796) cordingly not one of them received a penny of the 



only 251 veflels belonging to Yarmouth, and 42 be- bounty held out by this aft, which the adventurers 



longing to Deal, Dover, Rye, and Southwold, in the fifhery from Campbelltown and Rothfay 



( reckoning repeated voyages, for the greateft num- appear to have been well warranted in calling a 



ber of veflels in any one year was 56) and no others bounty only upon paper. 



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