282 A. D. 1793. 



flitisfadion of the importers and the revenue officers, the former allow- 

 ance of difcount for damage was now aboliflied ; and inftead of it the 

 duty on all figs was lowered from 12/10 per hundredweight in Brit- 

 ifli veflels, and 1 3/4 in foreign ones, to lo/and 10/6, with a draw- 

 back of g/a on exportation Virginal wire, made of copper, was fub- 



jeded to the iame duty on importation with that made of brafs. — The 

 commiflioners of the cuftoms were authorized to make an equitable re- 

 turn of the duties paid by the importers on goods damaged at fea, with- 

 out calling for the opinion of merchants, unlefs in cafes, wherein they 

 think themfelves incompetent, or when the importers are difPatisfied 

 with the allowance offered by them. — The commiflioners were alfo 

 authorized to iell fmuggling veflels to fuch as would fit them out as 

 privateers, infl:ead of deftroying them. [c. 70] 



June 21" — The fum of/^386 : 15 : 6 was allowed for provlfions for 

 the relief of 650 emigrants from the Highlands of Scotland, who arriv- 

 ed in great diftrefs in Nova Scotia. The fum of /^i 3,800 : 15 : o was 

 allowed for gratuities and paflage-money to fundry American loyalifts 

 defirous of fettling in Upper Canada — And the fum of ;Ci,420 : 3 : o 

 was granted to fundry perfons, who had carried on the whale filhery in 

 Nova Scotia, and had arrived at Milford haven in order to fettle in this 

 kingdom, to indemnify them for the lofles fuftained by the fale of their 

 property, the expenfe of their removal, &c. Thefe allowances are in- 

 cluded in the fupplies granted this year by parliament, [c. 72] And, 

 for the fake of connecT:ion, it may be here obferved,..that a further al- 

 lowance of ^{"240 : 18 : o was made next feflion to another of the whalers 

 from Nova Scotia. 



The law for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and ex- 

 peditious in Scotland, was continued, with fome variations and improve- 

 ments, fuggefted by experience, [c. 74] 



April 30"" — That the benefits of the canals, which already interfered 

 the country in a great variety of diredions, might be rendered more ex- 

 tenfive by a communication with the metropolis, a grand jundion was 

 projeded between the Oxford canal at Braitnfton in Northampton-ftiire 

 and the River Thames at Brentford : and the company of the proprie- 

 tors of 'The grand junciion canal were invefted with the ufual powers 

 to make and maintain the canal, with collateral cuts to Daventry, 

 to the River Nen, to the turnpike road at Old Stratford, and to 

 Watford, whereby a cheap and eafy carriage might be aflforded for all 

 heavy commodities between the Irilh and Britifh channels, the ports of 

 Hull and London, and the feveral intermediate populous and manufac- 

 turing towns ; the agriculture of the country might be aflifted by fup- 

 plying lime and other manures at an eafy charge ;. and a confiderable 

 redudion might be effeded in the price of coals, which, however, are 



iiig all the operations of the farm. The neceflary as imprafticable ; and the duty, guarded witli iuch 



coiifcqtience was, that fcarcely any coals were ever fevere reftriclions, was a mere nothing. [Ano«'j 



carried to thofe remote regions ; all improvements Tour in 1786, />. 162.] 

 depending upon the ufe of them were abandoned 



