478 A. D. 1799. 



Greenland feas and Davis's ftrairs, as amended by the ad 32 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 22, continued till 25'" December 1800. 



The ad: for difcontinuing the duties payable on the importation of 

 tallow, hogs lard, and greafe, continued till 25"^ March 1806. 



The ad for granting bounties on the Newfoundland tifheries, con- 

 tinued, fo far as it relates to thofe bounties, till i" January 1801. \_cc. 

 loi, 102] 



Stamp duties, from one halfpenny to four pence, were impofed on 

 bills of exchange, proniifTory notes, or draughts pa\able on demand or 

 otherways for fums of fve fhillings, twenty fhill-ngs, or twenty-one (hil- 

 lings, draughts on bankers payable on demand being exempted The 



bank of England having been allowed to pay £1 2,000 a-vear as a com- 

 poiition for the ftamp duties chargeable upon their notes by the ad 

 31 Geo. Ill, c. 25, and having made no compofirion for the fubfequent 

 increafed ftamp duties, an annual payment of /^8,ooo as compofition 

 for the flamp duties enaded fince 31 Geo. Ill, and a further annual 

 payment of /^4, coo as compofition for the duty chargeable on their 

 notes of twenty fliillings by the prefent ad, were now required to be 

 made by them in halt-yearly payments. — The chartered banks, and 

 fome banking companies, in Scotland were alfo empowered to iflue 

 notes of 5/, 20/^ or 21/, without fiamps, on making payments to the 

 fatisfadion of the commiflioners of the flamps and the barons of ex- 

 chequer in Scotland, and complying with a multitude of regulations. 

 [c. 107] 



Pitch, tar, deal boards, fir, and timber, were allowed to be imported 

 from Hamburgh, Bremen, Altona, and Gluckftadt, in Britifti veiTels 

 navigated according to law, till the 1" of Auguft 1802. [r. 1 1 1] 



The king was empowered to permit, with the advice of his privy 

 council, the importation of any goods whatloever, fpecified in the order, 

 in vefTels belonging to any country in amity with his Majefiy, till fix 

 weeks after the commencement of the next felfion of parliament. \_c. 112] 



The crowded fi:ate of the port of London, and the prodigious de- 

 predations upon the property floating on the water and lying on the 

 wharfs, (fee above pp ^6^, 454 1 loudly called for fome means to put 

 an end to evils of fuch magnitude and enormity. The Weft-India 

 merchants, having made the neceflary preliminary examinations and ar- 

 rangements, now obtained an ad of parliament authorizing them to 

 conftrud a fet of wet docks. After obferving in the preamble the in- 

 convenience occafioned by the circuit of the river round the peninfula 

 called the Ifle of dogs, the vafl: increafe of the fhipping in the river, 

 and the want of room and accommodation at the legal quays, the ad 

 empowers the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the city of Lon- 

 don to make a canal, fufinciently large and deep to be navigated by fliips, 

 extending acrofs the head of the peninfula called the Ifle of dogs be- 

 tween Blackwall and Limehoufe hole. They are invefl:ed with all the 

 neceflliry powers to build piers, flood-gates, bridges, &c. to take the 

 water of the Thames for the fupply of their canal, and alib the ground 



