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By what means these reasonable expectations of 
the planters, and good intentions of the minister 
the said inhabitants, being navigated in like manner as British ships 
and vessels are by law directed to be navigated, were admitted into 
the ports of Great Britain with all the privileges and advantages of 
British built ships: 
“ And whereas by the several laws tow existing, for regulation of 
the trade and commerce of Great Biitain with foreign states, the 
subjects of the latter are, as aliens, liable to various commercial re¬ 
strictions, and also to various duties and customs at the ports of Great 
Britain, which hitherto have not been applicable to, or dtmandabls 
from, the inhabitants of the several provinces new composing the 
said United States of America : 
“ And whereas it is highly expedient that the intercourse between 
Great Britain and the said United States should be established on the 
most enlarged principles of reciprocal benefit to both countries ; but, 
from the distance between Great Britain and America, it must be a 
considerable time before any convention or treaty for establishing and 
regulating the trade and intercourse between Great Britain and the 
said United States of America, upon a permament foundation, can be 
concluded. 
M Now, for the purpose of making a temporary regulation of the 
commerce and intercourse between Great Britain and the said United 
States of America, and in order to evince a disposition of Great Bri¬ 
tain to be on terms of the most perfect amity with the said United 
States of America, and in confidence of a like friendly disposition on 
the part of the said United States towards Great Britain, Be it further 
enacted, that from and after the the ships and 
vessels of the subjects and citizens of the said United States of Ame¬ 
rica, with the merchandises and goods on board the same, shall be ad¬ 
mitted into all the ports of Great Britain in the same manner as the 
ships and vessels of the subjects of other independent sovereign states; 
but the merchandises and goods on board such ships or vessels of the 
