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Show 646) ( 47 ) this means' charged with Three-pence per Shin The Remedy is fimple, and therefore the more more, than other Nations paid, when {upplied from hence, and the natural Confequence muff likely to be ef'r‘eé‘tual, but" if the Six-pence which Foreigners mull pay for every Skin they be the Encouragement of their Manufaéiory to we in Addition to its Purchafe here, does not the prejudice of our own. In the}, the [Pram/z had giatttmlly gained upon us in every Market: turn the Scale in our favour, 3 {till heavier Bur- The i‘vianutaftory was thriving in Portugal, and. theta was great reafon to apprehend that it would foon be eiiablifhed in Sprig, while our own Iixportation of Hats was reduced above one half in Ten Years : That this great Diminution then mufl be impofed; and the Duty certainly will then, it may now be the means of recovering and improving a confiderable Manufacture almoIl loft; at the fame time that a Reve- tho' the Imports were cncrcalcd from little more nue is rail‘ed upon the COnfumption of Foreigners, who are ablolutely dependant upon us for their Supply ~, and our Colonies are alfo relieved in a materialArticle of their Produce. The Indulgence fhewn to them in taking of? the Duty upon Whale Fins, is of {till greater ConfeqUence to flmerim, and would be thought a Sacrifice of the lnterefl‘s of Great-Bri/ain to than 62,000, in thole of the Colonies, if {he could confidcr them was not occafioned by a decreafe in the Confnmption, but only by a Change of the hands that: were to fupply it, appeared from the Exports of the Skins being now even greater thin the Im~ ports, of which they ulcd to be only one Half, the Year 1750, to above 128,000, in the Year 1763: Smuggling in~ wards fupplied the Excefs of the Exports over the Imports, and the number of Skins fent a~ broad lafi‘ Year was to large, that had they been made into Hats here, thofe Hats would have produced to the Nation Sixty or Seventy Thoufand Pounds more than the Skins fold ibr. To reti‘ietiy thefe Evils, an Ac'l: was paired during the. hit Seiiions, whereby the Duty is transferred from the Importation to the Iil'xportation of Bea- ver Skins: A Penny only of the former Seven. stance is retained upon thole Imported, in are oer to bring all to a regular Entry, and to be a Check upon the Trade, from whence a Judg~ {rent may at any time be formed of the State it is in: And Seven-pence is on the other hand tensofed upon every Skin that ihall be experted. The as dil'tiné‘t and independent of eachother, The Whale Filhery has been long the Obyeé‘t of public Attention, and many Provifions have at diiferem: Times been made for the Recovery ofit from the Daft/5, for our own Confumption at leafi, which to our great Difgrace and Detriment, ufed to be entirely and has even till now been partially lup- plied from Hal/and. For this Purpole the Riv gour of the Act of Navigation was relaxed, and the Trade laid open to all the Inhabitants of England, whether Natives or Foreigners, tree of Cultom by 25 Car. 11. c. 6. but by the lame Aé‘t Fifty S/u'l/z'ngrper Ton is impoled on Whale .hins caught by Ships belonging to the I'lantations, unlcfs the fame be imported by Ships belong- ing to England, in which Cale itis reduced to Twcxly five Ski/[mgr per Ton. This Duty callld t it: |