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... American independence seemed completely to break up our Navigation system . Before that period there was a constant communication carried on between the colonies which subsequently became the United States and our other colonies , which ...
... American independence seemed completely to break up our Navigation system . Before that period there was a constant communication carried on between the colonies which subsequently became the United States and our other colonies , which ...
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... American vessels , being the property of Americans , and also American built ; that thirty cents should be laid upon ships being the property of foreigners , but built in the United States ; and fifty cents upon foreign vessels ; and ...
... American vessels , being the property of Americans , and also American built ; that thirty cents should be laid upon ships being the property of foreigners , but built in the United States ; and fifty cents upon foreign vessels ; and ...
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... America , the rule was adopted , that the produce of those countries might be imported either in British ships , or ... America ; and the law with regard to these cannot be stated more briefly than it is stated in the very short ...
... America , the rule was adopted , that the produce of those countries might be imported either in British ships , or ... America ; and the law with regard to these cannot be stated more briefly than it is stated in the very short ...
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... America , of which the goods are the produce , and from which they are imported . ' And with regard to the trade with ... American goods from Europe into this country . With regard to the trade between the British colonies and foreign ...
... America , of which the goods are the produce , and from which they are imported . ' And with regard to the trade with ... American goods from Europe into this country . With regard to the trade between the British colonies and foreign ...
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... Americans ; and , in defiance of threats , and unsupported by his commander - in- chief , we find him unhesitatingly seizing offenders against the law . Conduct so spirited had the desired effect it checked the American trade , and ...
... Americans ; and , in defiance of threats , and unsupported by his commander - in- chief , we find him unhesitatingly seizing offenders against the law . Conduct so spirited had the desired effect it checked the American trade , and ...
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Page 11 - December, one thousand six hundred fifty-one, and from thenceforwards, no goods or commodities whatsoever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, or of any part thereof; or of any islands belonging to them or any of them, or which are described or laid down in the usual maps or cards of those places, as well of the English plantations as others...
Page 309 - ... most favoured nation, unless His Majesty, by His Order in Council, shall in any case deem it expedient to grant the whole or any of such privileges to the ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign country...
Page 301 - An Act to indemnify all persons concerned in advising, issuing , or acting under, a certain order in Council, for regulating the tonnage duties on certain Foreign Vessels, and to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for authorising His Majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the 'duties and drawbacks on goods imported or exported in any Foreign Vessels...
Page 299 - An Act to regulate the Trade of British Possessions abroad, as provides that no Goods shall be imported into or exported from any of the British Possessions in America by Sea from or to any Place other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such Possessions, except into or from the several Ports denominated Free Ports...
Page 316 - An Act to regulate the trade between his majesty's possessions in America and the West Indies, and other parts of the world.
Page 11 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or are of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, plantations or territories as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are...
Page 307 - Plantations or Territories to his Majesty belonging or in his possession or which may hereafter belong unto or be in the possession of His Majesty His Heires and Successors in Asia Africa or America...
Page 22 - Mighty and destructive, by that severe act of parliament which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe but our own, so that we cannot add to our plantation any commodity that grows out of it, as olive trees, cotton or vines.
Page 300 - An Act to consolidate and amend the several Laws now in force with respect to Trade from and to Places within the Limits of the Charter of the East India Company, and to make further Provisions with respect to such Trade, and to amend an Act of the present Session of Parliament for the registering of Vessels, so far as it relates to Vessels registered in India...
Page 12 - And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Goods or Commodities that are of Foreign Growth, Production, or Manufacture, and which are to be brought into England, Ireland, Wales, the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, or Town of...