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But, whatever benefit has accrued to the mother- 
country from the regulations and arrangements 
which the British parliament thus confirmed and 
perpetuated, it is certain that her remaining colo¬ 
nies in North America, at whose instance and for 
whose benefit the scheme of exclusion and restric¬ 
tion was principally promoted, derived few or none 
of those advantages from the measure, which they 
and apparel; except tobacco, pitch, tar, turpentine, hemp, flax, masts, 
yards, bowsprits, staves, heading, boards, timber, shingles, and lum¬ 
ber of any sort ; horses, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, and live 
stock of any sort; bread, biscuit, flour, pease, beans, potatoes, wheat, 
rice, oats, barley, and grain of any sort, such commodities, respec¬ 
tively, being the growth or production of any of the territories of the 
said United States of America : And that none of the goods or com¬ 
modities herein before excepted, enumerated, and described, shall be 
imported or brought into any of the said islands from the territories of 
the said United States, under the like penalty of the forfeiture thereof, 
and also of the ship or vessel in which the same shall be so imported 
or brought, together with all her guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, 
and apparel, except by British subjects and in British-built ships, 
owned by his majesty’s subjects, and navigated according to law. 
By another clause, none of the aforesaid articles are to be brought 
from any of the foreign islands, under the like penalty, except in 
times of public emergency and distress, when the governors of any of 
our islands, with the advice and consent of the council, may authorize 
the importation of them by British subjects in British-built ships for 
a limited time.” Such is the law as it now stands with regard to the 
import of American articles into the British West Indies i Concern¬ 
ing the export of British West Indian produce to the United States, 
it is permitted to export, in ships British-built and owned, any goods 
or commodities whatsoever, which were not, at the time of passing the 
act, prohibited to be exported to any foreign country in Europe, and 
also sugar, melasses, coffee, cocoa-nuts, ginger, and pimento 5 bond 
being given for the due landing of the same in the United States. 
