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the parent state.” For the prevention of this in- 
eonveniency in future, the duties in question are 
laid on the export of those commodities from the 
plantations; unless security be given to transport 
them directly to England, Berwick, or Wales. 
The duties were the same, I believe, as were 
then paid in England on most of those commodi¬ 
ties imported for home consumption. 
This act was soon found to require explanation 
and amendment; for the payment of the aforesaid 
duties having been considered in the colonies as an 
exoneration from giving security not to go to any 
foreign market in Europe; it was provided by the 
7 and 8 W. III. c. 22, that, notwithstanding the 
payment of the duties in question, the same secu¬ 
rity should be given as was required by former 
acts; and it was enacted and declared, that no 
commodities of the growth or manufacture of the 
plantations, should, on any pretence whatsoever, 
be landed in Ireland or Scotland, unless the same 
were first landed in England, and had paid the rates 
and duties wherewith they w T ere there chargeable 
by law. 
By the same act it is declared, that no goods or 
merchandize whatever shall be imported into, or 
exported out of, any British colony or plantation, 
but in ships birilt in England, Ireland, or the plan¬ 
tations, wholly owned by English subjects, and na¬ 
vigated as before; and provisions are established 
concerning the registering of ships, to prevent the 
