A. D. 1797. 42 1' 



the Levant feas, from any port ivbatfoever, either in Britifli veflels or 

 velTels belonging to any friendly nation, on paying, if in Britifh veC- 

 fels, the fame duties, which would be payable on the goods, if im- 

 ported diredly from the place of their growth, and, if in foreign vef- 

 fels, fuch duties as would have been payable if this ad: had not been 

 made. The cuftom-houfe mufl: not pafs any entry of goods fo import- 

 ed, till the importer produces a certiticate that he is a member of the' 

 Turkey company, and that he has paid the company's duties on the 

 goods to be entered, and has in all refpects conformed to the company's 

 regulations All thofe kinds of goods, which ufed heretofore to be im- 

 ported from any European port in the Mediteranean fea, except thole 

 which coujd only be lawfully imported from the Turkifli dominions, 

 may be imported by any perfon from any port whatioevcr, not be- 

 ing in the Turkifh dominions, in any veflel, whether Britifh or be- 

 longing to a foreign friendly (late, on paying the fame duties, if in 

 Britifh vefTels, as if the goods were imported dire6tly from the place 

 of their growth, except drugs, for which the importer, if not a mem- 

 ber of the Turkey company, mud pay the duties formerly exaded on 

 drugs not imported from the places of their growth. Goods imported 

 by virtue of this ad in foreign velTels muft pay the fame duties as if 

 this ad had not been made. — The continuance of the ad is fixed to 

 three months after the termination of the war. [c. 84] 



June 22^ — An almoft-innumerable fet of additional flamp duties^ 

 were impofed upon all policies of infurance at fea or on the land,, 

 upon bills, bonds, and, in fhort, upon every kind of deed or inftru- 

 ment in writing : but, as the duties of this kind are in almoft-conti- 

 nual progrefs of annual augmentation, it would be wafting much time 

 to little purpofe to enumerate them. No lefs than three halfpence of 

 additional duty was at once laid upon every ncwfpaper. Eight fhil- 

 lings additional were impofed upon every ounce of gold plate, and fix- 

 pence upon filver plate, whether imported or made at home. \c. 90] 



The ad, 31 Geo. Ill, c. 45, for allowing a further bounty of if 6^ 

 on the exportation of every barrel, containing 50 gallons, of pilchards 

 properly cured, was continued till the 24"^ of June 1805. [i-. 94] 



The ad, 4 Ann. c. 21, for the prefervation of falmon and other 

 fifb in the rivers of Hampihire and Wiltfhire, and the ad, i Geo. I, 

 c. 18, for preferving the fry of fifh, &c. were amended. The time,^ 

 wherein falmon may not betaken, is fixed to commence on' the 12"* 

 of September, and to continue till the i" of January (inftead of from 

 the 1'' of Auguft till the 11'" of November as formerly), and the mil- 

 lers are now direded to leave an opening of a foot fquare in the 

 ftreams without any intermifllon from the 11'" of November till the 

 11'" of July. [..95] 



July 4'" — It was now that the commercial treaty with the United ftates 



