country, or dimensions of the ships importing the same; and also, except on ammunition, arms, gunpowder, and other utensils of war, importable only by virtue of his majesty's license;' and that the duty on the importation of every such article (if subject to duty in either country) should be precisely the same in the one country as in the other, except when an addition may be necessary in either country, in consequence of an internal duty on any such article of its own consumption,

or in consequence of internal bounties in the country where such article is grown, produced, or manufactured, and except such duties as either kingdom may judge expedient, from time to time, upon corn, meal, malt, flour, and biscuits.'

XI. "That in all cases where the duties on articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, are different on the importation into the other, it is expedient that they should be reduced, in the kingdom where they are the highest, to an aimount not exceeding' the amount payable in the other;' so that the same shall not be less than ten and a half per cent. upon

any article which was charged with a duty, on importation into Ireland, of ten and a half per cent. or upwards, previous to the 17th day of May 1782;' and that all such articles should be ext portable from this kingdom, into which they shall be imported, as free from duty as the similar commodities or home manufactures of the saine kingdom.

XII. "That it is also proper, that in all cases where the articles of the consumption of either kingdom shall be charged with an internal duty on the manufacture, the said manufacture, when imported from the other, may be charged with a farther duty on importation, adequate to countervail the internal duty on the manufacture as far as relates to the duties now charged thereon;' such farther duty to continue so long only as the internal consumption shall be charged with the duty or duties to balance, which, it shall be imposed; and that where there is a duty on the importation of the raw material of any manufacture in one kingdom, greater than the like duty on raw materials in the other, such manufacture may, on its importation into the other kingdom,' be charged with such a countervailing duty as may be sufficient to subject the same so imported, to burthens adequate to those which' the manufacture composed of the like raw materials is subject to, in cousequence of duties on the importation of such materials in the kingdom into which such manufacture is so imported; and the said mauufacture so imported, shall be entitled to such drawbacks or bounties on exportation, as may leave the same subject to no heavier burthen than the home-made manufacture.

XIII. " That, in order to give permanency to the settlement now intended to be established; it is necessary, that no new or additional duties should be hereafter imposed in either kingdom, on

the importation of any article of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the other, except such additional duties as may be requisite to balance the duties on internal consumption, pursuant to the foregoing resolution, or in consequence of bounties remaining on such articles when exported to the other kingdom.

XIV. That for the same purpose, it is necessary farther, that no prohibition, or new additional duties, shall hereafter be imposed in either kingdom, on the exportation of any article of native growth, produce, or manufacture from the one kingdom,' to the other, except such as either kingdom may deem expedient, from time to time, upon corn, meal, malt, flour, and biscuit.

XV. "That for the same purpose, it is necessary, that no bounties whatsoever should be paid or payable in either kingdom, on the exportation of any article to the other, except as relate to corn, meal, malt, flour, and biscuit, and except also the bounties at present given by Great Britain' on beer, and spirits distilled from corn; and such as are in the nature of drawbacks or compensation for duties paid, and that no bounty should be payable' on the exportation of any article to the British colonies or plantations,

or

to the British settlements on the coast of Africa,' or on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantation, or from the British settlements on the coast of Africa, or British settlements in the East Indies;" or any manufacture

made of such article, unless in cases where a similar bounty is payable in Great Britain, on exportation from thence, or where such bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compensation of or for duties paid, over and above, any duties paid thereon in Britain; and where' any internal bounty shall be given in either kingdom on any goods manufactured therein, and shall remain on such goods when exported, a countervailing duty adequate thereto, may be laid upon the importation of the said goods into the other kingdom.'

XVI. "That it is expedient for the general benefit of the British empire, that the importation of articles from foreign countries' should be regulated from time to time, in each kingdom ou such terms as may effectually favour the importation of similar articles of the growth, product or manufacture of the other' except in the case of materials, of manufactures, which are, or hereafter may be allowed to be imported from foreign countries, duty free; and in all cases where any articles are, or may be subject to higher duties on importation into this kingdom, from the country belonging to any of the states of North America, that the like goods are or may be subject to when imported, as the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British colonies and plantations, or, as the produce of the fisheries carried on by the British subjects, such articles shall be subject to the same duties on importation

into Ireland, from the countries belonging to any of the states of North America, as the same are or may be subject to on importation from the said countries into this kingdom.

"That it is expedient, that measures should be taken to prevent disputes touching the exercise of the right of the inhabitants of each kingdom, to fish on the coast of any part of the British dominion.

XVIII. "That it is expedient, that such privileges of printing and vending books as are or may be legally possessed within Great Britain, under the grant of the crown or otherwise,' and the copy rights of the authors and booksellers of Great Britain, should continue to be protected in the manner they are at present, by the laws of Great Britain; and that it is just that measures should be taken by the parliament of Ireland for giving the like protection to the copy-rights of the authors and booksellers of that kingdom.'

XIX. That it is expedient, that regulations should be adopted with respect to patents, to be hereafter granted for the encouragement of new inventions, so that the rights, privileges, and restrictions thereon granted and contained, shall be of equal duration and force throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

XX. "That the appropriation of whatever sum the gross hereditary revenue of the kingdom of Ireland (the due collection thereof being secured by permanent provision) shall produce after