348 A. D. 1795. 



lilk of a quality coarfer than what is called third Bolonia, nor any tram 

 filk of the grovTth of Italy, nor any other thrown filk of the produce of 

 Turkey, Perfia, Eaft-India, or China, was allowed to be imported in 

 virtue of this acl. And all filks imported under this ad were direded 

 to be brought to the cuflom-houfe in London, wherever they might be 

 landed, in order to prevent the importation of the kinds not allowed. — 

 All forts of flax and flax-feed were in like manner allowed to be imported 

 in any veflels belonging to friendly fl.ates during the fame time, \c. 1 00] 



It may be fufficient to fay once for all, that this ad has been fre- 

 quently renewed. 



In order to prevent the frauds committed by ufing falfe weights and 

 unequal balances, the jufl;ices in quarter fefllons were direded to ap- 

 point proper perfons to examine them, and to deflroy falfe ones. The 

 jufl:ices were alfo direded to fine the oifenders, and to provide ftandard 

 weights. \c. 102] 



June 26"' — The ad 32 Geo. Ill, c. 4.3, having fixed 50/" exclufive of 

 duty, as the higheft average price of mufcovado fugar, at which the 

 drawback fhould be allowed on the exportation of mufcovado, or the 

 bounty on the exportation of refined, fugar, it was now, on account of 

 the war, fixed at 65/^ At the fame tinae one fliilling per hundredweight 

 was deduded from the bounty on refined fugars exported in foreign 

 vefl^els. {c. 1 1 o] 



Some of the fliips employed by the Eafl-India company having been 

 taken into the fervice of government, and the company having there- 

 upon, with the approbation of the board of controul, fent infl;rudions 

 to their prefidencies in India to take up fhips for bringing home their 

 cargoes from India and China, the king in council was empowered to 

 authorize veflels fo employed by the company, though not Britifti-built, 

 nor navigated according to law, if built within the territories of the 

 comj^any, or in any port of the Eafl-Indies under the protedion of the 

 Britifli flag, to import goods from the countries within the limits of the 

 company's trade, on the fame terms as if they were imported in Britifli- 

 built veiQels, till the expiration of eighteen months after the conclufion 

 of the prefent war ; and alfo to permit them to export to the fame 

 countries, and with the confent of the company, all kinds of merch- 

 andize, except ordnance and military ftores. \c. i 15] 



Rape feed, and all other feeds yielding oil, were allowed to be im- 

 ported in Britifli veflels, legally navigated, from any part of the w^orld, 

 on paying a duty of one Ihilling per lafl;, whenever the price of mid- 

 dling Britifli rape feed is fo high as ^20 per lafl:, under the fame regul- 

 ations by which the importation of feeds from Ireland or the Britifli 

 provinces in America is regulated. \c. 117] 



The revenue officers were direded to lodge in their warehoufes all 

 wine, which the importer fliall for twenty days negled to enter, or pay 

 the duty for, or land^ till the duty is paid, together vrith fixpence pei? 



