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pretence whatever to be exported from Antigua to any other Britifli 

 colony : and foreign vefTels, arriving at any of the free pores with Jlaft- 

 India goods onboard, are Uable to forfeiture. Tobacco of the growth 

 of any ifland or country in the Weft-Indies or America, belonging to 

 any foreign European power, may be imported in toreign veflels into 

 any of thofe ports, and thence imported into Great Britain or Ireland 

 on paying the fame duties as American tobacco. 



The liberty of importing foreign fugar and coffee in foreign veftels 

 was extended to the Caicos iflands *, under the fame regulations which 

 were prefcribed on their importation into the Bahama and Bermuda 

 iflands by the ad 32 Geo. Ill, c. 43, with the further privilege of ex- 

 porting fuch goods from the Bahamas, Bermudas, and Caicos, without 

 paying any duty whatever : and ail fugar and coffee, imported into 

 Great Britain from the Caicos, are deemed of foreign growth. 



The a£ls 28 Geo. Ill, c. 6, and 31 Geo. Ill, c. 38, having prohibited 

 the importation of timber from the foreign Weft-Indies into the Britilh 

 Weft-India iflands, they were repealed fo far as to permit the import- 

 ation of bullet tree, purple heart, green heart, black heart, maftic, walla- 

 baw, yellow fanders, locuft, and baftard mahogany, the produce of South 

 America, Trinidad, and Porto Rico, for the fervice of the fugar plant- 

 ations. 



The ad 28 Geo. Ill, c. 6 had alfo prohibited the importation of any 

 goods whatfoever from the United ftates of America into the provinces 

 of Nova Scotia, New Brunfwick, the iflands of Cape Breton, S'. Johns, 

 or Newfoundland, with their dependencies ; but now the importation 

 of pitch, tar, and turpentine, from the United ftates in Britifli veflels 

 was permitted for the accommodation of the fliip-builders of thole 

 countries, [c. 50] 



June 7'" — The Eaft-India company by virtue of an ad of parliament, 

 [23 Geo. II, c. 22] and upon the fecurity of the debt due to them by 

 the public, had fold annuities at three per cent to the amount of 

 ;^2,992,440 : 5 : o of capital, which were known by the name of India 

 annuities. With the confent of the company, and of the holders of the 

 annuities, thofe annuities, and alfo the annuities on the capital fum of 

 ;^i,207,559 : 15 : o, retained by the company in their own hands, 

 amounting upon the whole to £126,000 a year, were transferred from 

 the management of the company to that of the bank of England, and 

 ingrafted upon the fund called the three-per-cent reduced annuities, 

 and made chargeable thenceforth, as other branches of the national 

 debt, on the confolidated fund. By this ingraftment the debt of 

 ;^4,20o,ooo, due by the public to the company, was confidered as paid 

 off, excepting that the part of it remaining in the company's hands muft 



• In this a£l the Caicos appear to be confidered as no part of the Bahanau iflands. 



