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... sugars home as the nation consumed . They supplied our plantations with wines , brandies , linen , and almost every- thing they spent [ used ] in the islands . This being so notorious , the then Government thought upon the Act of ...
... sugars home as the nation consumed . They supplied our plantations with wines , brandies , linen , and almost every- thing they spent [ used ] in the islands . This being so notorious , the then Government thought upon the Act of ...
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... sugar , molasses , or two or three other articles mentioned in the treaty , should be exported in American vessels , even from the United States , to any part of the world , except the British Dominions ; but I cannot find that any ...
... sugar , molasses , or two or three other articles mentioned in the treaty , should be exported in American vessels , even from the United States , to any part of the world , except the British Dominions ; but I cannot find that any ...
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... sugar duties ; and I should appre- hend now that they must have that effect on sugars the produce of Asia , Africa , or America , refined in Europe , the duty on which is three guineas on a hundred - weight . Only a very small quantity ...
... sugar duties ; and I should appre- hend now that they must have that effect on sugars the produce of Asia , Africa , or America , refined in Europe , the duty on which is three guineas on a hundred - weight . Only a very small quantity ...
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... sugar from Cuba ; and , in fact , to trade from all parts of the world with America . " Is it probable that America would interfere with the China trade ? —İ think it highly improbable . I think it would be more probable that we should ...
... sugar from Cuba ; and , in fact , to trade from all parts of the world with America . " Is it probable that America would interfere with the China trade ? —İ think it highly improbable . I think it would be more probable that we should ...
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... sugar and rice . Now the exports of sugar , on account of the recent dab- bling and changes there have been in the home duties , have actually declined , and not advanced ; but the exports of rice , on account of the scarcity of ...
... sugar and rice . Now the exports of sugar , on account of the recent dab- bling and changes there have been in the home duties , have actually declined , and not advanced ; but the exports of rice , on account of the scarcity of ...
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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...