132 A. D. 1787. 



nations, among the feveral flates, and with the Indian tribes ; to coin 

 money, and regulate the value of it ; and to fix the ftandard of weights 

 and meafures. 



§ 9) The migration or importation of fuch perfons, as any of the flates 

 may think proper to admit, is not to be prohibited by congrefs prior to 

 the year 1808 ; but a duty, not exceeding ten dollars, may be impofed 

 on each perfon fo imported*. 



No duties fliall be laid on articles exported from any ftate ; nor fliall 

 any preference be given to the ports of one ftate over thofe of another. 



§ 10) No ftate fliall coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing 

 but gold and filver coin a tender in payment of debts, or pafs any law 

 impairing the obligation of contrads. No ftate fhall, without the con- 

 fent of congrefs, lay any imports or duties on imports or exports, except 

 what may be abfolutely neceffary for executing the inlpeftion laws ; 

 and the net proceeds of fuch impofls or duties mufl be paid into the 

 treafury of the United flates. 



It was eflimated, that for feveral years after the commencement of 

 the prefent reign the whole annual value of the cotton manufactures of 

 this kingdom was under ;(^200,ooo ; and that not above 50,000 fpindles 

 were employed in fpinning cotton yarn. At this time the fpindles 

 employed were eftimated to be above 2,000,000, and muflins were 

 made in the Britifh looms which rivaled thofe of India. The fol- 

 lowing is believed to be a pretty corred: 



View of the progrefs of the cotton manufaSlure from the year 1 781, when 

 muflins were firfl made in this kingdom. 



Cotton ufcd in tlie manufactures of Great Eftimated value of the cotton manufaftures of 

 Britain. Great Britain. 



5,101,920 pounds in the year 1781 - - ^2,000,000 



11,206,810 - - 1782 - - 3,900,000 



9,546,179 - - 1783 - - 3,200,000 



11,280,238 - - 1784 - - 3,950,000 



17,992,888 - - 1785 - - 6,000,000 



19,151,867 - - 1786 - - 6,500,000 



22,600,000 (say 22,176,887 1) 1787 - - 7,500,000 



A writer, who invefligated the fubjedl of the cotton manufadlures at 



this time, eflimates the fupply and the expenditure of cotton in the year 



1787 in the following proportions. 



* Though Negro flavcs be not exprefsly men- tained in this paragraph is deriTed, could not 



tloned, this regulation points only to them. obtain at the time (1788) when he wrote. The 



\ This is the quantity in 1787 according to importation of cotton continued to increafe, as 



the cuftom-houfe report prefented to the hoiife of will appear from a (latement of the quantity of 



commons, which the writer of An important crifis raw materials ufed in the principal manufaftures 



in the calico and mujlin manufatlory in Great Britain of Great Britain, to be given in a fubfcquent part 



txplained, from whom molt of the information coa- of this work. 



