296 A. D. 1794. 



were funded at the rate of ^{^i 01 in the five-percent fund for every 

 ^100 of their principal and intereft reckoned to the i" of March 

 1794. [c. 21] The capital of the debt thus created amounted to 



£i,g26,S25:t2: s- 



In confideration of the difficulty of procuring the full complement of 

 men required by law to be muftered onboard veflels fitted out for the 

 whale fifhery in the Greenland feas and Davis's ftraits at the port of out- 

 fit, fuch veflels are allowed to fail with a deficiency of three men for 

 every fifty tuns of their burthen, and to fill vip their complement in the 

 Firth of Clyde, Loch Ryan, Lerwick in Shetland, or Kirkwall in Ork- 

 ney. On their return thofe men may be landed at their refpedive 

 homes, and, on producing a certificate from the officers of the cufioms 

 at the ports where they were landed of the number of men who were on- 

 board, the veflels are entitled to the bounty, as much as if the men had 

 been onboard during the whole voyage, [c. 22] 



The period of the exclufive property of new patterns for printing 

 linens, calicoes, muflins, &c. was extended to three months : and the 

 law for veiling fuch propeity in the original defigners, &c. hitherto 

 temporary, was now made perpetual, [c. 23] 



April 1 7"" — Additional duties were laid all the various kinds of glafs, 

 whether Britilh-made or foreign ; and a variety of regulations were en- 

 aded for fecuring the duties, [c. 27] 



The lords of the treafury, underftanding that there had been an 

 unufually great exportation of pot-aflies and pearl-afhes to'France in 

 neutral vefl"els,and apprehending that it might be intended for increaf- 

 ing the produdion of faltpetre in that country, to be afterwards made 

 into gun-powder, had ifllied orders to put a ilop to the exportation of 

 fuch afhes : and they were now indemnified by parliament for iflhing 

 the orders, as they were not jufl;ified by law. The king was alfo inveft- 

 ed with the power of prohibiting by proclamation, or by order in coun- 

 cil, the exportation, and even the coafting carriage, of pot-aflies and 

 pearl-aflies. [r. 34.] 



The following ads were continued for limited times, vix. 



The ad for encouraging the exportation of culm to Lifljon, continu- 

 ed till 25'" March 1795. 



And the ad eftablilhing Clark's hydrometer as the fiandard for prov- 

 ing the firetigth of fpiritous liquors, continued till i'' June 1797. [c. 2^] 



May 9"^ — ^The fum of £'j 4.0,666 : 1 3 : 4 was raifed this year by a lot- 

 tery, of which ;(^240,666 : 13:4 became a profit to the public over pay- 

 ment 01 the prizes. The ad contains a multiplicity of new precautions 

 againft the fraudulent pradices, which, in fpite of all prohibtion, ac- 

 company the tranfadions of the lottery, [c. 40] 



The Eaft-India company, in compliance with their petition, were re- 

 Icafed from the obligation of keeping their bond debt within the amount 



