chap, in.] WEST INDIES. aa 5 
The reader will find that the system embraces 
two distinct objects; first, the augmentation of our 
naval strength, by an entire exclusion of foreign 
shipping from our plantation trade; secondly, the 
payment of the same duties as if imported directly from the place of 
their growth ■. 
By 13 Geo. I. c. 15 and 7 Geo. II. c. 18. cochineal and indigo 
were allowed for a certain time to be imported from any port or place, 
in British or other ships ; which acts were afterwards renewed, and 
are now in force. 
By 3 Geo. II. c. 28. rice was permitted, under certain conditions, 
to be carried from South Carolina to any port of Europe southward of 
Cape Finisterre; a privilege afterwards extended to North Carolina 
and Georgia. 
By 4 Geo. II. c. 15. non-enumerated goods (viz. goods not enu¬ 
merated in the 12 of Cha. II, c. 18.) are admitted to be imported di¬ 
rectly into Ireland from the colonies, notwithstanding the 7 and 8 of 
W. III. c. 22.—Hops, by a subsequent statute, are excepted out of 
this indulgence. 
By 12 Geo. II. c. 30. sugars, under certain regulations and re¬ 
strictions, are permitted to be carried immediately from the British 
plantations to any port or place southward of Cape Finisterre, and 
also to any foreign port of Europe in licensed ships, which are to call 
first at some port in Great Britain.—-This was considered as a great 
indulgence, but the conditions and regulations on which it was grant¬ 
ed were so strict and numerous, as to defeat in a great measure the in¬ 
tention of the legislature. 
By 4 and 5 Geo. III. sect. 27. British plantation coffee, piemento, 
and cacao-nuts are put into the enumeration; as are likewise whale 
fins, raw silk, hides, and skins, pot and pearl ashes ; and by sect. 
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