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ed as one of the neceffiries of life, it became neceflary to guard againft 

 the exceflive exportation of it, fomewhat upon the fame principles with 

 thofe on which the exportation of corn is regulated. The clerk of the 

 company of grocer? of London is required to obtain an account of the 

 quantities and prices of fugars fold in London every week from the im- 

 porters (who are directed to give in the fame upon oath) and to publifh 

 the average price of the week, in the London gazette ; and alfo to pub- 

 lifh in the months of February. June, and Odober, an average of the 

 prices during the preceding fix weeks. It was enabled, that, if the aver- 

 age price of mufcovado fugar in July 1792 fhould exceed 60/, or in 

 Odobei 1792 fhould exceed 55/ or thereafter fhould exceed 5(5/" per 

 hundredweight exclufive of duties, the drawback allowed upon the 

 exportation of mufcovado fugar, and the bouruy upon the exportation 

 of refined fugar, fliould be difcontinued, till lower prices fhould again 

 render the allowance of them expedient. The exportation of fugars to 

 Ireland and fome other parts of the Britifli dominions was, however ex- 

 cepted from the operation of this act ; but the quantities to be carried 

 to the iflands of Guernfey, Jerfey, Alderney, Sark, and Mann, during 

 the fufpenfion of drawbacks and bounties, are limited. The commif- 

 lioners of the cufloms are alfo prohibited to grant licences tor carrying 

 fugars from the places of their growth to foreign ports in Europe (as 

 permitted by the ads 12 Geo. II, c. 30, and 15 Geo. II, c. 2;^) during 

 the fufpenfion of drawbacks and bounties. 



Sugar and coffee, the produce of foreign colonies, were alfo permit- 

 ted to be imported in Britifh-built veffels, owned and navigated accord- 

 ing to law, from any port not in Europe into the ports of London, 

 Briftol, Liverpool, Lancafter, Glafgow, and Leith, and to be warehoufed 

 at the expenle of the importer, and to the fatisfadion of the officers of 

 the revenue, v/ichout paying any duty. Such fugar and coffee may alfo 

 be re-fhipped for exportation without paying any duties. But if they 

 are intended for home confumption, they mufl: pay the duties, which 

 may be legally due at the time on the importation of fuch goods. 



Sugar and coifee, the produce of foreign plantations, were permitted 

 to be imported in foreign veflels into the Bahama and Bermuda iflands, 

 fubjed to the regulations contained in the ads 27 Geo. Ill, c. 27, and 

 30 Geo. Ill, c. 29. And fuch fugar and coffee, if carried from thofe 

 iflands to any other part of the Britifli dominions, mufl; pay fuch duties 

 as flrall at the time be payable on foreign fugar and coffee, [c. 43.] 



The powers, wherewith the magilfrates were invefted (by the ad 13 

 Geo. Ill, c. 68) for fettling the wages of workmen employed in the lilk 

 manufadure, were now extended to the manufadures of filk mixed with 

 other materials. And the feliers of embezzled filk, and the buyers or 

 receivers of filk from work-people employed in the fiilk manufadures, 



