1 88 A. D. 1789. 



the re-exportation of any fuch articles was prohibited under the penalty 

 of forfeiture of the vellel and goods : and exporters of fimilar articles 

 were required to make oath that they were not fo imported, [c. s^] 



The coi-n-fadors in London and the fuburbs were required to give 

 weekly accounts to the infpedor of corn returns of the corn brought 

 by fea into the River Thames, and fold by them, with the value, and 

 the names of the purchafers ; from which he is to compute the average 

 price of each fpecies for London, Eflex, Kent, and SulTex. And when 

 the price of any kind is above the rates fpecified in the adl [13 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 43] for regulating the corn trade, fuch corn may be imported into 

 the ports of London, Eflex, and Kent, on payment of the duties known 

 by the name of the low duties : and the exportation, or prohibition of 

 exportation, of Britifli corn, and the bounties thereon, are regulated in 

 the fame manner. All the other maritime counties of England and 

 Wales were divided into eleven diftrids for the purpofe of determining, 

 in confequence of returns made from them to the infpedors of corn 

 returns, the places in each diftrid, where foreign corn may be import- 

 ed on payment of the low duties, or Britifh corn may be exported. — 

 For the benefit of the Newfoundland fiflieries, 150 tuns of bifcuit and 

 100 quarters of peas are allowed to be exported from Greenock in any 

 <3ne year under the regulations of the ad 14 Geo. Ill, c. 5. Starch is 

 alfo allowed to be exported to all places, whatever the price may be. 

 For the fupport of the Britifh fettlers on the Bay of Honduras, limited 

 quantities of flour, bread, peas, oatmeal, and barley, may be carried thi- 

 ther from any port of England under licences from the commiflloners 

 of the cuftoms. In confideration of the fcarcity in the province of Qiie- 

 bec, 2,000 quarters of wheat, 2,000 facks of flour, and 8,000 quarters 

 of peas, were permitted to be carried to that province, whatever price 

 they might be at. — The duty upon the importation of rape feed trom 

 Ireland being regulated by tiae price, the corn-fadors and importers of 

 o-rain were direded to include the fales of Britifli rape feed in their 

 weekly accounts tranfmitted to the receiver of corn returns in London ; 

 and the importation of it, and warehouflng it without payment of duty, 

 were put under the fame regulations as corn. \c. 58.] 



Auguft 11'" The fame drawbacks, which are allowed upon the ex- 

 portation of tea to Ireland and the Britifli colonies in America, were al- 

 lowed on the exportation of it to Jeriey, Guernfey, Gibraltar, and any 

 place on the continent of Europe, where a Britifli conful refides, and 

 alfo to Africa. \c. 59.] 



The Eaft-lndia company were empowered to add ^^i ,000,000 to their 

 capital flock by new fublcriptions, the preient proprietors being entitled 

 to a preference j and alfo to pay the fame dividends on the additional, 

 as on the former, flock. \c. (>s,y The company's flock by this addi- 

 tion was augmented to five millions. 



