174 



A. D. 17-88. 



three for every five tuns above that burthen *. Five flavcs, meafuring 

 under 4 feet 4 inches, were allowed to be packed in the room allotted 

 for four of a larger growth. — The whole of the tweendecks mud be al- 

 lotted for the ilaves, and alfo the upper cabin. — On his arrival at the 

 port of difcharge in the Wefl-Tndies the commander is required to de- 

 clare upon oath the burthen of his veffel, and the number of flaves on- 

 board, before the chief officer of the cuftoms', who is to order the vef- 

 fel to be fearched, and an account to be taken of the flaves. — Every 

 veffel fitted out for a flaving voyage mufl: be entered for it at clearing 

 out, and mufi; carry a furgeon regularly bred (as mufi appear by his 

 certificate), who is to give bond, that he will keep a journal of the flaves 

 {hipped, and of the deaths of the flaves and of the crew, which he is to 

 deliver to the revenue officer at the port of difcharge, who is to return 

 him a duplicate of it, and to fenii copies of it to the commiffioners of 

 the cufioms in London. As an inducement to the commander and the 

 furgeon to be careful of the lives of the Negroes in their charge, the 

 parliament direded premiums of ;{'i 00 to the former and ;^50 to the 

 later, to be paid on producing certificates from the chief officer at the 

 port of difcharge, that the mortality of the Negroes previous to their ar- 

 rival does not exceed two per cent, and half thofe funis, if the mortality 

 does not exceed three per cent f. — On the foppofition, that fome cafes 

 might occur, wherein it would be equitable that compenfation fhould 

 be made to individuals for the loffes they might fuftain in confequence 

 of the regulations, Meffieurs Brook Watfon, Samuel Beachcroft, and 

 William Roe, were appointed commiffioners for examining and report- 

 ing to parliament fuch loffes fuftained by any perfon, who fhould apply 

 to them before the i" of September 1788. [<:. 54.] 



For the protedion of the property of manufatlurers in the hofiery 

 branch, the retention, or fraudulent fales, of their frames by their jour- 

 neymen, and the deflrudion of them, or any mills or other machinery, 

 or of any hofiery work in the frames, were made punifliable by fine, 

 imprifonment, and tranfportation. [c. 55.] 



* According to thtfe rules the following fliould be the cargoes of two veiTels of 300 and 301 tuns. 



Slaves 



2CI tuns at 5 for. every three tuns - 335 



99 I for every tun - "99 



Slaves 



201 tuns at I for every tun - - 201 



100 3 for every 5 tuns - - 6o 



300 tuns to carr)' - - 434 301 tuns to carry full-grown flaves - 261 



But in reality the tunnage, which depends in a great meafure on the depth of the hold, has very 

 h'ttle concern with tlic quantity of air contained between the decks, the only part of the veffel in which 

 the cargo of flaves is (lowed. 



J The mortality in the harbour, after the ar- whereby the mortality in the. later part of tjie pafl"- 

 rival, but befoie the delivery, is not taken into the age dovi'n to the ifland where the fale is made, is 

 account, and that alone appears to he four andji-ve kept out of fight : and it is in the later part of the 

 eighths per cent: (See the note in p. 146) and palTage, efpecially if it is a tedious one, th.U the 

 m.cans ate fallen upon to elude the intention of this deaths are moft frequent. \_Sfe Sir William Young's 

 bounty alrnqft entirely by calling at S,. .Vincents Tour in the Wejl Jndies, in Edwards's Hi/}, of the 

 or fome other of the Wmdward iflands, and taking IVeJl Indies, V. iii, /. 253, Svo. fi/.J 

 up certilicates of the- ftate of the cargo of Negroes, 



