220 A. D. 1791. 



When the price of wheat rifes to 46/, rye, peas, and beans, to nfif^ 

 barley, bear, and bigg, to 23/^ and oats to \<^f. the exportation of them, 

 or of flour, n:ieal, malt, or bread, made of them, is prohibited on pen- 

 alty of forfeiture of the vefTel and cargo, with a fine of 2of for every 

 bufliel of grain or flour, and \f for every pound of bread. From this 

 prohibition are exempted — giaiu neceflary for the fubfiftence of Ihips 

 of war and garrifons, beans carried to the coafl: of Africa for the flave 

 trade, and limited allowances of the feveral fpecies to be fliipped trom 

 certain ports for Gibraltar, Guernfey, Jerfey, Alderney, Mann, the Eafl;- 

 India company^s lettlements, the forts in Africa, the Wefli-Indies, the 

 Bay of Honduras, Hudion's bay, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Bay Cha- 

 ieur, and Labrador. Liberty is alfo given to export bear or bigg from 

 Orkney to Portugal or elfewhere, under tlie direction of the committee 



of the privy council for trade Corn, flour, &c. may be exported to 



Ireland, when there is an embargo on the exportation of them from 

 that kingdom. — In time of war the king is empowered to authorize an 

 increafed exportation to a limited amount. 



Three" feveral rates of duties, varying according to circumftances, 

 from (id to 2473 on wheat, and in proportion on the other fpecies, accord- 

 ing to the market prices, were made payable on importation fi-om for- 

 eign countries : and the importation of all kinds of malt, and ©f meal 

 or flour, made from rye, peas, beans, barley, bear, bigg, and Indian corn, 

 was totally prohibited. — A fimilar fet of duties was enacfted for the im- 

 portation from Ireland and the Britifli colonies in North America. 



' In order to promote and extend the commerce of the merchants of 

 ' this kingdom in foreign corn, and to provide fl:ores, which may be al- 

 ' ways ready for the relief of his Majefty's fubjeds in times of dearth,' 

 it was enaded, that foreign corn might be warehoufed without paying. 

 any duty till it fliould be delivered out for home confumption. 



The ad; contains a multiplicity of regulatioiis for the coafling car- 

 riage of corn, and for carrying it upon the canal between the Forth and 

 the Clyde ; and it alfo contains a new diflribution of the maritime, parts 

 of Great Britain into difl;rids for the purpofe of regulating the imports 

 and exports of corn, and the various rates of duties; and a lift of the 

 places, v/hich by their market prices are to regulate the trade in each 

 diftrid. And it moreover contains rules to be obferved by the infpedor 

 of corn returns, the corn fadors and dealers, and the receiver of corn 

 returns, who is direded to publifli the average prices of every week in 

 the London gazette, [f. 30.] 



The conftitution of the province of Quebec being thought in many 

 refpeds inapplicable to the prefent condition of it, it was thought exped- 

 ient to divide it into two provinces, to be called Upper Canada and 

 Lower Canada ; and to eftablilh a legiflative council for each, (the mem- 

 bers of which are appointed for life, fome of them being moreover dif- 

 tinguiflied by hereditary titles and legifl.itive authority) and alfo a houfe 



