172 A. D. 178$. 



duce of Hungary, Germany, France, Spain or the Spanifti dominions, 

 Portugal or the Portuguefe dominions, were lowered, and put on a level- 



with the wines of France The excife duty payable on French glafs^ 



bottles imported was transferred to the cuftoms — Carriages from this 

 country being admitted in France, under the denomination of fadlery, 

 on a duty of 15 per cent, the duty on the importation of French car- 

 riages hither was lowered from 27-^ to 15 per cent. — The duty of 5/6. 

 per piece, payable on the exportation of white- cloths, was explained to 

 be chargeable only on white cloths exported in an unfinifhed ftate. [c. ^^j,.] 



In order to prevent the difagreeable confequences of fquabbles and 

 contefts between the Britifli and French filhermen on the coafl of New- 

 foundland, the king was invelled with a power to give from time to 

 time proper inftrudions to the governor of Newfoundland to remove all 

 Brithh veffels and fifhing apparatus from that part of the coafl afligned 

 to the French fiihermen, and to ad in every refped fo as to fulfill the 

 conditions of the treaty of peace on the moft liberal conflrudion. [c. ^5.] 



June 25'" The cuftom duty on buck and deer (kins, undrelled, or 



Indian-half-drefled, was reduced to 2d, and on elk Ikins to 4a', per ikin ; 

 and the excife duty on buck, deer, and elk, Ikins, drefled in oil, was raifed 



to i/per pound Printed flufS, not comprehended in the fchedule of 



excife duties annexed to the ad 27 Geo. Ill, c. 13, were now fubjeded 

 to the duties paid upon other printed goods — And a great A/ariety of 

 regulations were enaded for fecuring the excife duties, [f. 37.] 



A great clamour was raifed by the woolen manufadurers, who al- 

 leged that no lefs than 13,000 packs of wool were clandeftinely export- 

 ed every year to the continent, and loudly cried out for more rigorous 

 laws againfl the fmugglers of that important raw material. On the 

 other hand. Sir Jofeph Banks the prefident of the royal fociety, and 

 Mr. Arthur Young, well known for his extenfive obfervations, and his 

 writings, on agricultural and rural affairs, appeared to prove, that the 

 average exponation for five years back had been only i ,100 packs, and 

 hnce the commercial treaty with France only 480. The manutadurers. 

 prevailed : and all the exifting laws agalnll the exportation of wool were 

 repealed to make way for a new ad, whereby the exportation of live 

 flieep (except wethers for fea flock upon fpecial licence) was prohibited 

 under penalty of forfeiture of the Iheep and the veflel carrying them, 

 together with £^ for every (heep, and alio three months folitary impri- 

 i'onment to be inflided on every perfon concerned or aflifting, for the 

 firft offence, and heavier fines and punifhments for repeated tranfgrefl^ 

 ions- Any perfon concerned diredly or indiredly in exporting wool, 

 wool-fells, mortlings, fliorthngs, &c. or tobacco-pipe clay (except to the 

 Weft-Indies), is liable to a penalty of 3/ for every pound, or_^5o in 

 the whole, whichever the profecutor Ihall prefer, and alfo to folitary 

 imprifonment for three months for the firll offence, and fix months for 



