BOUNTIES TO LINENS. 



Flax-feed mixed with potatoes. 



Fraudulent lapped linens, 



Buildings and repairs, - - 



Clerks, &c. at linen office, - 



Ditto, linen and yarn halls, 



Infpeclors, itinerant men, and reed makers, 

 Incidental charges, 



In fixteen years, 



22 



Or per annum, ~ 14,100* 



Subfequent to 1698 Ireland, at an enormous expence to the 

 public, made a progrefs in the linen manufacture, &cf. 



The truftees of the linen board expended near half a mil- 

 lion of money to extend and promote the linen manufacture 

 before the year 1 750 J. 



But thele accounts do not yet fhew the full amount of pub- 

 lic money which has been granted for the ufe of this great 

 manufacture ; to have this complete we mud take in the boun- 

 ties on the import of feed, and on the export of canvas and 

 fail cloth, which have been as follow : 



By 



* Journal of the Houfe of Commons,, *vol. xv. f. 375. 



f Report of Sir Lucius O'Brien s committee journals, vol. xv. 

 p. 396. J Ibid. p. 400. $ This year this bounty ceafed. 



|{ Extracted from an account of national premium;, MS. Com- 

 municated by the Right Han. Jobn Forjier. 



