2y4 ^' ^' ^79^' 



tons of different qualities, making falfe iiiarks or invoices, and other 

 modes of deception, [c. Go] 



May 14"' The fum of /^y, 500,000 was raifed by a loan, the fub- 



fcribers to which received ;;^i20 in the three-per-cent confohdated fund, 

 £25 in the three-per-cent reduced fund, and a terminable annuity of 

 5/5 for 6^^ years, for every /^loo paid in by them. [c. 74] The 

 capital of the "debt thus created amounted to 2^8, 934, 200 in the con- 

 fohdated, and £1 ,859,625 in the reduced, fund, befides an annual charge 

 of ^20,582 : 7 : 6, payable till January i860*. 



Many foreign veflels, the owners of which intended to take the be- 

 nefit of the ads 35 Geo. Ill, c. 15 and c. 80, and of the orders in coun- 

 cil of January 1 795 , having been at fea tiU the time allowed was ex- 

 pired, it was thought proper to authorize the admiflion of them to 

 entry by orders in council, as a meafure conducive to the benefit of the 

 commerce of this kingdom. Thofe entries were therefor now legaliz- 

 ed ; and the veflels and their cargoes were placed in the fame fituation, 

 as if the letter of the law. had been ftridly complied with. The ad- 

 vifers and condudors of the meafure were alfo indemnified for the legal 

 informality. 



It beingalfo thought beneficial to the commerce of this kingdom, under 

 the Tpecial circumfiances of the commerce of Europe, and particularly 

 of that of the United provinces, to extend the time limited for the 

 entry of veffels, the owners of which might not chufe to fend them 

 back to the ports of the United provinces, and of all other vefl^els be- 

 longing to any friendly country, which might be in fearch of a place 

 wherein to depofit their goods, the parUament direded, that they fliould 

 be admitted, by order in council, into the ports of this kingdom till 

 the 2 2** of February 1797, on the fame terms as if they had been with- 

 in the terms prefcribed by the orders in council of 16" and 21" January 



1795 f. [r. 76] ., . ^ . . 1 ^ . 



Some difficulties havmg arifen m alcertammg the duties upon ma- 

 hogany rated by the meafure, they were direded to be rated by weight, 

 as follows. 



Mahogany of the growth of the Bahama iflands, or of the Britifli 

 diftrid in the province of Yucatan in the Bay of Honduras, if import- 

 ed diredly from the place of its growth, to pay 30/; and mahogany, the 

 growth of any other place, or mahogany not imported diredly from the 

 place of its growth, to pay £1, per tun of twenty hundredweight ; 

 and the whole duty to be drawn back on exportation, [c. 78] 



For the encouragement of the manufadure of black-lead melting 



* Thefe fums ought to have been jTy.oocooo, f the time was further extended by aft 37 Geo. 

 £l,375,cooaiid£2G,625: butwererediicedbyfome III, c. 12. 

 of the fubfcribcrs being defeftive in their payments. « 



