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To the a6l there is fubjoined a fet of fchedules or tables of the fimpli- 

 fied duties and drawbacks, forming of itfelf a pretty fizeable volume, 

 which every merchant engaged in general bufinefs muft have in his 

 counting-houfe. In confolidating the duties the minute fractions are 

 difcarded, and, generally the neareft integral numbers above them are 

 taken, which fmall augmentation produces an increafe of from twenty 

 to twenty-fix thoufand pounds a-year in the revenue. In the fchedule 

 the duties of cuflom and excife upon brandy are together only 5/ though 

 7/ was the duty flipulated in the commercial treaty with France. The 

 duties upon mofl fpecies of drugs were alfo lowered. And by thefe re- 

 dudions it was expeded that the trade would be taken out of the hands 

 of the fmugglers, and put into thofe of the fair trader. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 



May — The temporary a£ts [15 Geo. Ill, <:. 51, and 17 Geo. Ill, c. 30] 

 for regulating notes under five pounds were now made perpetual. [27 

 Geo. Ill, c. 16.] 



It was enaded, that vefl"els, regiftered in Ireland agreeable to an ad of 

 the parliament of that kingdom, ihould enjoy all the privileges of Britifh 

 velFels. — Perfons, who have had occafion to take an oath for the fole 

 purpofe of acquiring the rights of a citizen or a burgher in any foreign 

 city or town in Europe, are not thereby difqualified from being owners 

 of Britifh vefl^els. — The fecretary or other perfon, deputed from the 

 Eafi:-India company and other corporate bodies, may make oath of a 

 vefi^el being the property of the company. — Frefh fecurity mufl be 

 given on every change of the commander of a vefiel. — Vefl'els not 

 exceeding thirty tuns burthen, and not having a whole deck, employed 

 in the coafting and fifhing bufinefi^es in Newfoundland, Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunfwick north of Cape Canfo, or in the adjacent 

 iflands, are not obliged to be regiftered. And vefTels built upon thofe 

 coafts for European owners may be regiftered there upon the oaths of 

 their agents : but upon their arrival in Great Britain they muft be re- 

 giftered anew upon the oaths of the real owners. — All veflels, not re- 

 giftered agreeable to law, though owned by Britifti fubjeds, are declared 

 to be, to all intents and purpofes, alien vefi^els. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 19.] 



Wool, cotton, indigo, cochineal, drugs of all forts, cocoa (or choco- 

 late nut), logwood, fuftic, and all forts of dye-woods, hides, (l<ins, tallow, 

 beaver, all other kinds of fur, turtle-ftiell, hard wood or mill timber, 

 mahogany and all other woods for cabinet ware, horfes, affes, mules, 

 and cattle, being the produce of any colony in America belonging to 

 any European power, and alfo coin, bullion, and pretious ftones, were 

 permitted to be imported in foreign fingle-decked veft"els, of not above 

 ieventy tuns burthen, after the i" of September 1787, into the ports 

 oi King/ion, Sava7i?ia-la-mar, Motitego-bny, and -S'. Lticea, in Jam.aica, 5'. 

 Georges in Grenada, Rofenu in Dominica, and ISJaJfau in New Providence : 



