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of aflembly, the fpeaker of which is nominated by the governor, to- 

 gether with a court of civil jurifdidion, and every other requifite of a 

 colonial government, [c. 31.] 



The dividends due upon the public funds, which lay unclaimed in the 

 pofTeflion of the bank of England had accumulated to £66o,coo. There 

 can be no doubt, that a fum, which the creditor negleds to call for, 

 muft remain with the debtor, and by no means with his agent or bank- 

 er : and therefor Mr. Pitt, the chancellor of the exchequer, propofed, 

 that _^5oo,ooo of that dormant money fliould be applied to the public 

 fervice. But the motion was oppofed by the diredors of the bank, as 

 dangerous to public credit ; and the matter was compromifed by the 

 nation accepting that fum as a loan from the bank without inrereft, on 

 condition that a balance of the public money not lefs than _^()Oo,ooo 

 (reckoning this loan of /^ ^00,000 as part of it) fliould at all times re- 

 main in the hands of the bank, and that the annual allowance to the 

 bank for the management of the public debt fliould continue at the rate 

 of X450 for every million of the capital. \_c. ^-^.^ 



The importation of filk crapes and tiflfanies of the manufafture of 

 Italy from any other country than Italy was prohibited : and no draw- 

 back was thenceforth allowed on re-exporting them. [c. 37] 



The importation of provilions, live fliock, lumber, &c. into the Brit- 

 ifli Wefl:-Indies by Britifli veflels was permitted from the United States^ 

 of America, but flridly prohibited from the Wefl-India iflands belong- 

 ing to any foreign European power, by the a6l 28 Geo. Ill, c. 6 ; and 

 the prohibition was nov/ extended to the foreign colonies in South Amer- 

 ica, the governors of the Britifli Weft-India iflands having ftill the fame 

 difpenfing pov/er to permit importation in Britifli velTels in caits of ab- 

 folute necefllty, as before, [c. 38.] 



Though regulations had been eftabliflied for the government of fea- 

 men in veflels trading to foreign countries, ever fmce the beginning of 

 the reign of King George II, which had been found very beneficial to 

 the trade and navigation of this kingdom, no law had yet been palTed 

 for regulating thofe employed in the ftill more important buflnefs of 

 the coafting trade. It was now enaded, that the commander of every 

 veffel of 100 tuns burthen, or upwards, which goes out to the open fea, 

 muft enter into articles with his feamen, excepting apprentices, which 

 fliall exprefs the wages payable to each man together with the other 

 points of their contrad, and be figned by himfelf and each of the fea- 

 men : and in cafe of difputes the commander is bound to produce the 

 agreement, [c. 39.] 



New powers were conferred on the earl of Cornwallis, governor-gen- 

 eral of India, whereby he was authorized to make treaties with the 

 native princes in his own name, and to ifllie orders to the governors 

 and councils of Madras and Bombay, and alfo to the other fervants- of 



