126 A. D. 1787. 



and veflels imporiing any other articles are to be forfeited. Foreign 

 veflels, belonging to tlie colonies of any European power, may carry from 

 thofe ports rum the produce of any Britifh ifland, negroes who have 

 been imported in Britifli veflels according to law, and all other goods 

 legally imported ; except mails, yards, bovvfprits, pitch, tar, turpentine, 

 tobacco, and iron brought from the Britifh colonies in America. — ^Wool, 

 cotton, indigo, and the other articles above enumerated, may be carried 

 from the above-mentioned ports of Kingfton, &c. to Great Britain and 

 Ireland under the regulations prefcribed in the Navigation ad and other 

 fubfequent a6ts refpeding fliipping. — The exportation of European or 

 Eaft-India goods from Grenada, Dominica, and New Providence, to any 

 other Britiih colony is exprefsly prohibited on penalty of forfeiture of 

 the goods and the veflel carrying them.— To encourage the refort of 

 foreigners, the revenue officers are ordered to take no fees whatever for 

 the entry of their veflels or cargoes *. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 27.] 



Duties payable upon the importation of the various kinds of French 

 glafs were enaded : and feveral alterations took place in the duties 

 charged upon the manufacture of glafs in Great Britain. [27 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 28 J 



In confequence of the general redudion of the duties on wines in virtue 

 of the French commercial treaty, parliament ordered repayment to be 

 made to the dealers of the difference of the duty on their flock of wines 

 on hand. At the fame time avafl multiplicity of new regulations for fe- 

 curing the excife duties on a great variety of articles and manufadures 

 were enaded. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 31.] 



All veflels having bowfprits, whether flanding or running, longer 

 than two thirds of their extreme length, were ordered to be feized, if 

 found within four leagues of the coafl. — All boats, whether belonging 

 to vefTels or not, mufl have their names and their mafler's names paint- 

 ed upon them — Veffels having licences from the admiralty for particu- 

 lar trades, if found out of their limits, are feizable, unlefs driven out of 

 their courfe by ftrefs of weather — The exemption from duty, granted 

 to flaiks containing wine and oil from Tufcany, was extended to all 

 flafks containing wine and oil. — The fame ad contains a great multitude 



of regulations for fecuring the duties of the cuftoms It alfo allows the 



importation of ebony diredly from Africa in Britifh veffels free of any 

 duty. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 32.] 



The following ads of parliament were continued for limited times, 

 viz. 



The ad for the free importation of raw hides and Ikins from Ireland, 

 continued till i" June 1791. 



• With fubmiffion, I cannot help obferving, all, or even inquiring their names. For the fatal 

 that it would be much better policy to let at leaft confequence of a ftrici record of fuch matters fee 

 fome of them come and go without any entry at above, V. iii, p. 356. 



