A. D. 1798. 



451 



alties, to prevent frauds in digging, boiling, importing, or exporting, 

 fait, and in ufmg it for curing fifh or in any manufaciilure *. [<r. 89] 



May 7'" — The company of Britifli cad-plate-glafs manufadurers, in- 

 corporated by a6t 13 Geo. Ill, c, 38, had brought that branch of manu- 

 fadiire to great perfedion ; but in fo doing they had funk their own 

 capital of ;/r6o,ooo, and alfo borrowed ^^7,535 : 8 : o for carrying on 

 their bufinefs, for payment of which they had been compelled to fell 

 their property to fome perfons, who carried on the manufadure under 

 the ad till its expiration, and afterwards as a private company. The 

 manufadure being beneficial to the public, the prefent proprietors were 

 incorporated for twenty-one years. Their capital is not to exceed 

 £100,000, in which is included that of the former company, now veft- 

 ed in the new corporation ; and they are enabled to hold lands and 

 tenements not exceeding /^i,oco per annum, make bye laws, &c. 

 They may diffolve themfelves at any time, by confent of a majority 

 holding 700 fhares, on giving fix months notice in the gazette. [38 

 Geo. Ill, c. xvii, of local and pcrfonal aclj-.j 



June 29"' — Tlie magifi:rates, trufi;ces of the docks, fliip-owners, parifli 

 officers, and inhabitants of the commercial town of Liverpool, think- 

 ing it highly necefiary for the fafety and protedion of their port, that 

 floating batteries, gun-boats, and other works of defence, fhould be 

 provided, obtained an ad of parliament for raifing ^^5,000 to be em- 

 ployed for that purpofe. \c. Ixii of localy 'i^c.'] 



Seven ads were paiFed for alterations and additional works on canals, 

 and feveral for roads, bridges, and other improvements. 



The following accounts, illuftrative of the affairs of the Eafir-India 

 company, are extraded from the papers laid before parliament in Jan- 

 uary 1799. 



yln Account of the amount of all goods fold at the Eafl-India companfsfales, 

 from the V* of March 1797 to the i" of March 1798. 



Teas 



Bengal piece goods . . . . 

 Coast and Surat goods . . 

 China wrought silks . . . 



Eaw silk 



Organzine silk 



China ware 



Nankeens 



Pepper 



Saltpetre 



Drugs, indigo, sugar, f,;c. 



Coffee 



Wheat ■. 



'■' riiere arc 20 cafes of forfeiture of fjit, veflcls, boats, horfes, carts, &c. 13 cafes of giving bonds, and 42 varieties of 

 penalties from ;^ 20 to £500, befidcs corporal punifliments ; and oaths, certificates, debentures, notices, permits, &c. &c. 



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