A. D. 1788. 17 f 



The following ads of parliament were continued for limited times, 

 vi-z. Several claufes of the ad 5 Geo. I, c. 11, againft clandeftine run- 

 ning of uncuftomed goods, which have been frequently continued, were 

 further continued till 29'" September 1795. 



The aft for encouraging the cultivation of coffee was continued till 

 24'" June 1795. 



The adl for punifhing perfons going armed in defiance of the revenue 

 laws, continued till 29'" September 1795. 



The ad for encouraging the manufadures of flax and cotton, continu- 

 ed till i" January 1790. 



So much of the ad for permitting the exportation of limited quanti- 

 ties of wheat, &c. to the Britilh colonies, as relates to the fugar colon- 

 ies, and to the exportation from Lancafter, continued till i" May 1789, 



The permiflion to export tobacco-pipe clay to the Britifh fugar col- 

 onies was continued till 24"^ June 1792. 



The ad prohibiting the exportation of tools ufed in the iron man- 

 ufadures, continued till the end of the next fefllon of parliament. 



The ad for granting bounties on certain fpecies of Britifla and Irifh 

 linens exported, and taking off the duties on the importation of foreign 

 yarn made of flax, continued till 24'" June 1790. 



The ad to prevent frauds being committed by bankrupts, continued 

 till 1" June 1793. 



Some other ads of lefs commercial confequence were continued at 

 the fame time. [cc. 23, 24.] 



The duties for fupporting the light-houfes, direded to be built by 

 the ad 26 Geo. Ill, c. loi, being found inadequate to the expenfe, they 

 were raifed to three halfpence per tun upon Britifli, and three pence on 

 foreign, veffels. [c. 25.] 



In confequence of a treaty of alliance entered into with the flates- 

 general of the United provinces, all goods, the produce or manuflidure 

 of their dominions in Europe, except linens, were permitted to be im- 

 ported upon the loweft duties now payable by any foreign European 

 nation, [c. 27,] 



The Eaft-India company having prefented a petition to parUament, 

 wherein they fet forth, that, in confequence of the arrears of the war, 

 of the government's claim upon them for ;/^5 00,000, of the debt incur- 

 r-ed in China, and of the advances neceflary for the China trade, they 

 'i^ood in need of a large fum of money, which they prayed that they 

 might be authorized to borrow, they were accordingly empowered to 

 borrow/^i ,200,000 upon bonds under their common feal *. [c. 29.] 



The duties of cuftoms and excife on wines, which are not the pro- 



* The glut of Ind'a bonds, |r .Juced in virtue cf tin's ac^, funk the premium on them from Cc/ 

 and 7'yto ^Qf. But in two or three months thev got up fully as high as before. 



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