A. D, 1800. 



501 



among workmen, was explained and rendered more flrirt. Mafters were 

 alfo prohibited from entering into agreements for reducmg the wages of 

 their workmen. And mafters and workmen were required to fubmit 

 their differences to the decifion of arbitrators, as directed by c. go of 

 this feffion for the cotton manufadurers. [c. 106] 



The importation of Swedifli herrings, either in Eritifla vefTels, or 

 neutral ones, navigated in any manner whatever, and from any port of 

 Sweden, without payment of duty, was permitted till fix weeks after the 

 next feffion of parliament, [c. 107] Thus were there at the fame time 

 laws in force for inviting the importation of foreign-cured herrings, and 

 for giving bounties on the exportation of Britifli-cured herrings. 



Among the grants of money made at the end of the feffion for a 

 variety of purpofes, the following may be noticed, viz. 



for the forts on the coast of Africa ^20,000 O O 



for a civil establishment at Sierra Leona 4,000 O 



for completing a pier at Douglas in Mann 255 g O 



for a coinage of copper for the colony in New South Wales .... 697 7 o 



to the Levant, or Turkey, company 5,000 O O 



[c. 109] 



March 25"" — Two former ads, for improving the harbour of Great 

 Yarmouth, deepening the rivers conneded with it, preferving the {hip- 

 ping from fire, and for building abridge over the haven, were continued 

 for a further term of twenty-one years. [Local aSfs, 39, 40 Geo. Ill, 

 c. iv] 



April 4"" — The corporation of the Trinity-houfe of Kingfton upon 

 Hull were empowered to licence pilots for the River Humber, to regulate 

 the charges for pilotage, and to fettle falvages for the recovery of anchors 

 or other fhip's ftores found in the Humber, and alfo to fuperintend the 

 ballaft lighters in that river. [Local aSis, c. x] 



An ad was paffed for adding two new ftreets to the city of Aber- 

 deen ; a proof of its advancing commercial profperity. [Local acis, 

 c, xi] 



June 20"^ — After a delay and oppofition of five years, an ad was pafl- 

 ed for making wet docks at Wapping. The fubfcribers were, as ufiial, 

 created a joint-ftock company, under the name of The London-dock com- 

 pany, with power to fubicribe a capital of j^" 1,200,000, and, if neceflary, 

 to borrow /*300,ooo, in order to make and maintain wet docks, with 

 quays and wharfs adjoining, having communication with the Tham.cs 

 near the Hermitage dock, between Bell dock and Wapping old flairs, 

 and near Shadwell dock. Thefe, like the Weft-India docks, muft be 

 furrounded by a lofty wall ; and no houfes muft be built within thirty 

 feet of the wall. The company are vefted with the ufual powers of 

 purchafing the necefliiry ground and tenements, are reftrided from be- 

 ing concerned in building or repairing veffels, and in general have near-' 

 ly the fame powers, and are fubjeded to nearly the fame reftridions, as , 



