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proceed a pernicious mixture of heterogeneous and contraditftory man- 

 ners, languages, and principles. He however excepted ufeful artificers, 

 to obtain whom every encouragement fliould be held out. 



On the other hand Mr. Coxe, in his View of the United Jlates, has em- 

 ployed three chapters in fetting forth the advantages, which foreigners 

 may expedl from purchafmg and iettling lands, or eftablifhing manu- 

 fadlures, in America : and he confiders the increafe of population, which, 

 indeed, has been wonderfully great and rapid, as a very important ad- 

 vantage. 



April 11"' — An additional duty of 2/"8 per hundredweight was im- 

 pofed upon fugar, which like fome other duties impofed in the begin- 

 ning of this feflion, was intended for paying off exchequer bills, and to 

 ceafe when that objecS fliould be accompliflied. [31 Geo. Ill, c. 15.] 



June — For the fame purpofe additional duties were alfo laid on re- 

 ceipts, bills of exchange, &c. But they were made permanent, [c. 25.] 



The fkins of feals, caught by Britifh velTels in the Southern fiflier3% 

 and cured with fait taken in at the Cape de Verde iflands, were allowed 

 to be imported free of any duty, the commander making oath, that the 

 fkins were obtained according to the regulations of the atl 26 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 50, and that the fait was not carried from Great Britain. And more- 

 over, any fuperfluous fait or brine, found among the fkins, muil be de- 

 ftroyed. [f. 26.] 



An additional cuflom duty of i^^per dozen was impofed on the im- 

 portation of tanned goat andflieep Ikins. The excife duties paid by the 

 tanners on goat fl^ins tanned with fliomack, or ' tanned tor roans (.being 

 ' after the nature of Spanifli leather)' were repealed, and new duties, to 

 be reckoned by the number, were fubftituted for the former ones reck- 

 oned by the weight. [^. 27.] 



The corn laws were confolidated into one adl, which, it was hoped, 

 would proted: the interefts of the cultivator and the confumer It was 

 declared lawful to buy corn to fell again, and to lay it up in granaries, 

 whatever the price might be. In order to encourage agriculture it was 

 enabled, that, whenever it appears by the methods preicribed for afcer- 

 taining the prices, that wheat is under 44/, bai-Iey, bear, or bigg, under 

 22^, and oats under 14./, per quarter, the following bounties fhall be paid 

 on the exportation of them, viz. 



per hundredweight. 

 Wheat meal \f3 ; wheat flour and biscuit I/6. 

 i\ye meal and flour 9./. 



Meal of barley, bear, and bigg 1 Od. 



Oatmeal 1/ 



No bounty to be allowed on bifcuit, unlefs proved by oath to be made 

 of Britilh wheat, nor on any quantity lefs than two tuns, fliipped as 

 merchandize, befides the quantity neceflary for the vefTel's rtores. 



E e 2 



per quarter. 



Wheat - - 5/ 



Rye - - 37 



Barley, bear, &c. and malt^ ,>, 



made of them - 5 



Oats - - If 



