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securing to Great Britain all the emoluments ari¬ 
sing from her colonies, by a double monopoly over 
them: viz. a monopoly of their whole import,, 
which is to be altogether from Great Britainj and 
28. security is required that no iron, nor any sort of wood called iurn-' 
ber, the growth, production, or manufacture of any British colony or 
plantation, shall be landed in any port of Europe except Great Bri¬ 
tain ; an exception however was afterwards made by 3 Geo. III. c. 45-. 
by which iron might be carried to Ireland, and lumber to Madeira, 1 
the Azores, or any part of Europe southward of Cape Finisterre. 
By 5 Geo. III. c. 39. bond is required to be given in the British 
plantations, that no rum or other spirits shall be landed in the Isle of 
Man; and by the 6 Geo. III. c. 52. security is required for all non- 
enumerated goods, that the same shall not be landed at any port of 
Europe to the northward of Cape Finisterre, except in Great Britain, 
and (by a subsequent law) Ireland. 
By 5 Geo. III. c. 52. any sort of cotton wool may be imported: 
in British built ships from any country or place, duty free. 
By the 6 Geo. III. c. 49. was established the measure of opening 
free ports in Jamaica and Dominica. By this act, live cattle, and all- 
manner of goods and commodities whatsoever (except tobacco) the 
produce of any foreign colony in America, might be imported in¬ 
to Prince Rupert’s Bay and Rosseau in Dominica, and into Kingston, 
Savanna-!a-Mar, Montego Bay, and Santa Lucca in Jamaica, from 
any foreign colony or plantation in America, in any foreign sloop, 
schooner, or other vessel, not having more than one deck. This act 
was temporary, but was afterwards continued, until materially alter¬ 
ed by the 27 Geo. III. c. 27. wherein among sundry other regula¬ 
tions, two more ports are opened in addition to the former, viz. St. 
George, in the island of Grenada, and the port of Nassau, in the 
island of New Providence, one of the Bahamas, into which cotton¬ 
wool, indigo, cochineal, drugs of ail kinds, cacao, logwood, fustic. 
