A. D. 1800. , 499 



ciple of the finking fund fhall be facredly adhered to, fome part of the 

 money, thrown into the hands of individuals by purchafes made by the 

 commiffioners for the redudion of the national debt, may probably find 

 its way to Ireland, and there be employed in agricultural improvements, 

 for which there is great room, and in manufacturing eftablifliments, 

 which will have the advantage of cheaper labour, as long as the taxes 

 in Ireland fliall continue conliderably lower than thofe in Great Britain. 



July 9'" Among other expedients reforted to as remedies for the 



fcarcity of paper, a method was invented of difcharging the ink from 

 printed or written paper, and then grinding it down and reftoring it to 

 the fubfl:ance and form of clean paper. For the encouragement of this 

 uieful fubfiiture, the parliament permitted foreign wafte paper to be 

 imported without paying any other duty than that impofed by the con- 

 voy ad (38 Geo. Ill, c. 76"* provided it be rendered unfit for any other 

 purpofe than being re-manufadured. [c. 70] 



July 28'" — All former ads, relating to the performance of quarantine 

 by veflels arriving from places fufpeded of being afflided with the plague 

 or other contagious difeafes, were repealed, and new regulations enad- 

 ed inflead of them. In order to reimburfe the expence of a lazaret to 

 be ereded upon Chetney hill in Kent, the following duties were made 

 payable after the i" of Odober 1800, on every tun of the burthen of 

 the veflels having to perform quarantine, viz. 



Vessels, whose cargo or any part thereof shall have performed quarantine "1 

 in this kingdom, and shall have arrived from Turkey, the north coast of Af- }■ 7/6 

 rica, or Barbary, with clean bills of health J 



or if without clean bills 15/ 



Every vessel arriving from any other place with clean bills, if any part of | ^ 

 her cargo shall perform quarantine in this kingdom J -^ 



or if without clean bills 10/" 



Every vessel arriving from Holland, or any other place not having a rcgul- " 

 ar establishment for the performance of quarantine, and importing goods 

 brought from Turkey, North Africa, or Barbary, which shall have performed 

 quarantine in this kingdom 



Vessels arriving under circumstances which induce the king in council to 1 

 subject them to the like quarantine as if from Turkey without clean bills of j^ 15/ 

 health • • J 



Vessels, any part of whose cargoes have performed quarantine in this king- \ ,. 

 dom, entering the port of London, to pay farther i •' 



From the above duties are exempted-veffels arriving with clean bills 

 of health from all places, except Turkey, North Africa, and Barbary, — 

 vefi^els in ballaft or wholely loaded with fait, — and veflels having already 

 performed quarantine at Malta, Ancona, Venice, Melfina, or Leghorn. 

 A variety of regulations refpeding veflTels coming from countries liable 

 to be vifited by the plague or other infedious difeafes were alio enaded, 

 for which it will be neceflliry to have recourfe to the ad itfelf [c. 80] 



The time allowed for importing French wines in bottles or flaflvs from 

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