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ter the rate of thirty quarters of malt to twenty quarters of barley.

These oaths to be administered by the collectors and comptrollers of the customs.

§6. If a veffel be entered for exportation she may complete her loading, if done within 20 days of entry, on the fame terms as were in effect at entry, though in the mean time the prices fhould alter.

II.

Articles concerning the Prohibition of Grain, &c. from being exported.

1. On corn, &c. being exported contrary to this law it is liable to forfeiture, and the exporter to a penalty of 20s. per bufhel of grain and meal, and is. per cwt. of bifcuit; and the veffel is fubject to seizure, unless from the fmallness of the quantity or otherwife the master's ignorance can be evinced.

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§ 2. Corn, &c. may at any time be shipped in quantities fufficient for the fuftenance of the crew of the ship and animals on board; likewife for victualling king's fhips, forts, or garrifons, and to places and in quantities specified in a table which will be inferted at the end of this paper.

$ 3. Beans may be exported to British forts and factories in Africa, or for the ufe of British fhips in the African trade, which have been usually fupplied therewith from Britain.

$ § 4. Grain may be exported to Ireland at any time when the ports in that kingdom are fhut against exportation, which is to be ascertained by the announciation in the Gazette.-Bonds and oaths as usual being requifite.

5. Grain in warehouses, under the joint cuftody of the king's officers and the proprietor may at any time be exported.

III.

Articles concerning the Importation of Corn, &c.

1. No ground corn, except wheat flour, wheat meal, and oat-meal, nor any malt to be imported, under forfeiture of it and the fhip.

§ 2. Grain may, at importation, be landed at any port where there is a custom-house, or of which the King in Council fhall approve, without payment of duty, and lodged in a warehouse provided by the proprietor, of which the King's officers are to keep one key and the proprietor another; and the proprietor fhall have accefs to it, for the fake of taking care of it, when he finds it needful: On fuch occafions, an officer of the customs, paid by the King, fhall always attend.

3. Corn warehoused as above may be taken out of the warehouse without payment of any thing, and exported, or transported to any port where fuch grain is importable on low duties, there paying fuch duties; bond being given, with cautionry in treble the value, that it fhall be fo exported or transported.

§ 4. Corn warehoused as above may at any time be taken out of cuftody, on payment of the duties at the time payable on such grain, if imported; and in addis tion thereto, the duties fpecified in the table, as firft low duties; the corn, in fuch cafe, being measured and delivered out of the warehouse, and account taken in like manner as if taken out of a ship at importation.

$5. If a fhip arrive at a port where high duties are payable, the may proceed to one where low duties are.

§ 6. Corn, &c. may at any time, be put into lighters at Grangemouth, or in the Clyde, to be carried by the Glafgow Canal, or river Clyde, to any port where low duties are payable, entry and report thereof being previously made at the port where it arrived, and bond with cautionary given in, treble the amount of the high duties on fuch grain, and 40 fhillings per boll of oat meal, that it fhall be delivered at the port of deftination, (no fee or stamp-duty being chargeable on faid

bond.) Of all which the collector and comptroller fhall give a certificate and a warrant to accompany the grain. The transhipment must be completed within fix days after the arrival, and the bond must be difcharged per certificate from the officer at the landing port within two months of the date thereof.

IV.

Articles relating to the importation of grain, &c. from Ireland, and the British Colonies in America.

§ 1. Corn, &c. to be importable from Ireland on the terms mentioned in the table, only, if there shall be a law in Ireland permitting British corn to be imported there on fame terms; and that to take place three months after fame fhall have been anounced in the Gazette.

§ 2. On corn, &c. being imported from Ireland, or the British Colonies in America on the terms specified in the table: the captain of the fhip must bring along with him a certificate from the officer of the customs at the port of fhipping, expreffing the quantity on board, and in the bills of loading, and the names of the exporter, and of the perfon making oath that the grain was of the growth of the country whence exported, to which certificates the shipmaster must swear! V.

Regulations concerning the Transportation of Grain from one Part of the Kingdom to another.

1. No corn, &c. to be transported from a port where fuch corn is not exportable to one where it is exportable, under forfeiture.

2. When corn, &c. is tranfported coaftwife from a port where exportation is not allowed, there fhall, in addition to the usual coaft-bond on goods, be one given, that fame fhall not be landed at any British port whence it may at that time be exported.

§3. Corn, &c. may be landed at a port where exportation is allowed, if at the shipping thereof the exportation was prohibited, at the port where it was to be

landed, though the prices fhould, in the mean time, have fallen there fo as to admit of exportation.

VI.

General Regulations, and thofe regarding the afcertain ing of the Prices for the Purposes of this A&t, &c. 1. The maratime parts of England * are divided into the following districts;

1. London, Effex, Kent and Suffex,

2. Counties of Suffolk and Cambridge. 3. Norfolk.

4. Lincolnshire, Eaft and North Riding of Yorkfhire, and town and county of Kingston upon Hull,

5. Counties of Durham and Northumberland, and town of Berwick upon Tweed.

6. Counties of Cumberland and Weftmoreland. 7. Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.

8. Counties of Flint, Denbigh, Anglefea, Carnarvon and Marioneth.

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9. Counties of Cardigan, Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Glamorgan,

10. Counties Gloucester, Sommerfet, and Monmouth, and city and county of Bristol.

II. Counties of Devon and Cornwall.

12. Counties of Dorfet and Hants.

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Scotland is divided into the following Diftris.

13. Counties of Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, Stirling, Linlithgow, Edinburgh, Hadington, Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.

14. Counties of Dumfries, Wigton and Ayr, and Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

15. Counties of Argyle, Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew and Bute, and the western ports, and ifles of Invernessfhire, and Rossshire.

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16. The remains of the counties of Rofs and Invernefs, and counties of Orkney, Shetland, Caithnefs, Sutherland, Cromarty, Nairn, Elgin, Banff, Aberdeen, Kincardine, Forfar, and Perth,

In all parts of each of these districts the importation, exportation, &c. is to be the fame.

2. The Lords of the Treafury to appoint a perfon to be receiver of corn returns, who is to take fuitable oaths. The proprietors of corn exchange, or failing them, the lord mayor and aldermen of London are to appoint a person, not a corn dealer or factor, to be infpector of corn returns, and if need be, a temporary deputy inspector of corn returns for London, who are to take fuitable oaths, and give fecurity for their good behaviour.

And the justice of the peace, or lord mayors of the towns forming a county of themselves, are to appoint a fimilar inspector of corn returns in each of the principal towns (enumerated in the act) of the aforementioned districts. The functions of which offices are explained in the fequel.

3. Every corn dealer and factor in the towns where there are infpectors of corn returns, must, under a penalty, fign a written declaration, that he shall tranfmit weekly to the infpector of corn returns, an account of all the British corn and oat meal fold by him, mentioning the prices and the buyers. Thefe returns are to be recorded by the inspectors, but kept private from every one except the receiver of the corn returns, or by a written order from the mayor, aldermen of London, and towns forming a county of themfelves, or justices of peace of other counties. The infpector of corn returns is to tranfmit fame weekly to the receiver of corn returns, who fhall forthwith make up therefrom, an account of the average prices of grain, &c. for each district, and tranfmit fame to the collectors of customs in all the fea port towns, by VOL. VI. t

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