A. D. 1793." 277 



improper charges, they are reftricted from giving any new falaries or 

 penfions, or augmentations of old ones, above /^200 a year, without the 

 confent of the board of controul : and they are required to lay before 

 parliament annual accounts of the revenues of every prefidency, of their 

 fales in India and at home. Sec. 



The claim of the king upon the company for a balance of military 

 and naval expenfes down to 24"" December 1792, and the company's 

 claim upon the king for their expenfes in the expedition againft Manila 

 ill the year 1762, for fupporting prifoners and fupplying hofpitals in 

 India, and alfo for cufhoms on teas returned, amounting altogether to 

 ^(^443, 632, were fet againfl each other, and mutually cancelled ; the 

 company being bound to repay all expenfes incurred after 24"" Decem- 

 ber 1792 for the king's troops employed in India. 



In order to fecure to the company the full enjoyment of their excluf- 

 ive trade, as now limited, they are empowered to feize all veflels em- 

 ployed by any Britifh fubjed, belonging to Great Britain, Guernfey, 

 Jerfey, Alderney, Sark, Mann, the Faro iflands *, or any Britifh colony 

 in America or the Weft-Indies, which fhall be found without a licence 

 within the limits of their charter, together with their cargoes ; and to 

 arrefl all Britifh fubjedls, not employed or licenced by them, found 

 within their limits, and to fend them home to England for trial. Bntifli 

 fubjeds trading in India under the authority of foreign princes fliall for- 

 feit ^^500. 



The governors, and members of council, the officers of the revenue 

 and of juflice, in India are not permitted to engage, diredly or indi- 

 redly, in any kind of trade, unlefs on account of the company. The 

 judges of the fupreme court are upon no account to have any concern , 

 whatever in trade. Nor fliall any Britifh fubjedt be concerned in the 

 inland trade in fait, betel-nut, tobacco, or rice, except on account of the 

 company. 



All Britifh fubjedls are prohibited from conveying Eaft-India or Chin- 

 efe goods to Europe by the way of Suez, or any other route. But the 

 fervants of the company who are not particularly prohibited, and the 

 free merchants in India, may fell goods in India to the fubjeds of any 

 foreign flate,and may ad as agents inimporting, exporting, buying, and 

 felling, on account of any foreign merchant or company, and may lend 

 money to foreigners f. {^^ Geo. Ill, c. 52} 



* In after ages this aft of parliament may per- that kingdom, were a part of the Britifh domf- 



haps be adduced as a proof, that the Faro (or nions in the eighteenth century. 

 Foeroe) iflands, which (as we know from Snorro f This aft, confifling of 163 feftions, contains 



Sturlefon, the Herodotus of the North, and other many minute regulations for the government and 



authors) were colonized by refugees from Norway police of the territories in India, the forms of legal! 



in the reign of Harold Harfagiir, and by emigrants proceedings againfl delinquents, &c. which it is 



from the Weftern iflands of Scotland when they not necelTary to infert in this work. 

 were fuhjeft to Norway, and which flill belong to 



