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a monopoly of all their export, which (as far as it 
can serve any useful purpose to the mother coun¬ 
try) is to be no where but to Great Britain. On 
the same idea, it was contrived that they should 
and other dye woods, hides, and tallow, beaver, and all sorts of furs, 
tortoise-shell, mill-timber, mahogany, &c. horses, asses, mules, and 
cattle, being the growth or production of any colony or plantation in 
America, belonging to or under the dominion of any foreign European 
sovereign or state, and all coin an,d bullion, &c. may be imported in 
any foreign sloop, schooner, or other vessel, not having more than 
one deck, and not exceeding the burthen of seventy tons, and provi¬ 
ded also, that such vessel is owned and navigated by the subjects of 
some foreign European sovereign or state. It is permitted also to the 
same description of persons and vessels to export from these parts 
British plantation rum, negroes, and all manner of goods that had 
been legally imported, except naval stores and iron. The foreign ar¬ 
ticles thus permitted to be brought into the free ports by this act, may 
be exported again to Great Britain or Ireland; and by a subsequent 
law (30 Geo. III. c. 29.) the restriction in regard to the tonnage of 
foreign vessels is taken off, but these vessels are still limited to one 
deck. 
The next great measure was, the opening the plantation trade to the 
people of Ireland, which was first partially done by the 18 Geo. III. 
c. 55. and more fully by the 20 Geo. III. c. 10. under which they 
enjoy the like unlimited intercourse with the colonies, both in respect 
of import and export, as Great Britain on condition only, that the 
goods so imported and exported are made liable to equal duties and 
drawbacks, and subject to the same securities, regulations, and restric¬ 
tions as in Great Britain; a condition to which the parliament of Ire¬ 
land consented, by passing an act imposing duties on the imports, 
conformable to those of Great Britain. 
The regulations with regard to America, since the independence of 
the IJnited States, will be discussed in a subsequent chapter, 
