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A, D. 1800. 49^ 



ceding the 10'" of November, the bounty on Britifli plantation fugar, 

 and exemption from duty for Eall-India fugar, exported, are continued 

 till the expiration of this ad, which is declared to be on the 10"' of Mav 

 1 801. [r. 48] 



June 20"' — The adl, 39 Geo. Ill, c. 76, which impofed a duty of 

 i6/"io per tun on the importation of the oil or blubber of whales, &c. 

 being found to lay a very unequal burthen on the Greenland whalers, 

 vvhofe pradice it is to bring home the blubber to be afterwards boiled 

 down to oil^ whereas the Southern whalers, in the courfe of their long 

 palliige homeward, manufidure their oil onboard, it was now enaded, 

 that the former fliould pay the duty according to the quantity of oil 



obtained froai the blubber after their arrival The duty of 1/27 per 



pound- weight on opium imported, impofed by the fame ad, was chang- 

 ed to a duty of three per cent on the value. — The dury on oil of turp- 

 entine was nov/ fixed at 2-^d per pound-weight, together with the duty 

 impofed by the ad 38 Geo. Ill, and two duties of five per cent each, 

 calculated upon that duty — The duties upon the importation of tar were 

 now fixed as follows. 



Tar not produced in the British dominions, imported in a British i 



vessel, per last of 1 2 barrels of 3 J |; gallons each 



— if imported in a foreign vessel 



Tar produced in the British dominions 



There are alfo payable upon tar, befides the duty impofed by the ad 

 38 Geo. in, two other duties of five per cent each, calculated upon that 

 duty. — Burr ftones, and ftones for paving, carried by coafling naviga- 

 tion, are exempted from the duty on fl:ones, impofed by the ad 34 Geo. 

 Ill — Veflels, importing tobacco, are ordered to remove, after difcharg- 

 ing their cargoes, from the place appointed for mooring the vefl^els in 

 the tobacco trade. — The owner of every veiTel having a licence, agree- 

 able to the ad 24 Geo. Ill, feff". 2, c. 47, muft give bond that flie fliall 

 not anchor nor hover within the limits of any port, or within four 

 leagues of the coaft, or within the diftances and fituations defcribed in 

 the ad 34 Geo. Ill, c. 50 ; and alfo that fiie fhall not be employed in 

 any other trade than the one fpecified in the licence, [c. 51] 



The fum of £^26,2^0 was railed by a lottery of 60,000 tickets at 

 >Cf3 • 15 • 5 each. The fum allowed for prizes was ;^500,ooo, and fo 

 there remained a profit of/^326,250. \_c. 52] 



A bounty was allowed till the 15'" of Odober on all rye imported, on 

 terms fimilar to thofe of the bounties given on wheat, &c. by the ad, 

 c. 29. Ic. Sil 



The court of exchequer in Scotland was empowered to advance to 

 the lord provoll and magifirates of Edinburgh ;^25,ooo of the money 

 repaid by the proprietors of the Forth-and-Clyde canal, for the purpofe 

 of completing the improvements of the harbour of Leith, for which 

 they are to pay intereft at five per cent. The money, when repaid, is 



