monwealth, upon the fame terms, and no further reftrictions than if faid veffel was owned by the citizens of these ftates. And be it further enacted, that this act shall continue in full force until the United States in congrefs affembled shall be vefted with competent power for the purpofe, and fhall have paffed an ordinance for the regulation of the commerce of thefe ftates; and the period may arrive when the faid ordinance is to take effect, and no longer. In the house of reprefentatives, June 23, 1785.-This bill having had three feveral readings, paffed to be enacted. NATHANIEL GORMAM, Speaker. True copy. its growing profperity, the neceffary expences in time of peace, of protecting the trade and general interefts of the empire. 3. That towards carrying into full effect fo defirable a fettlement, it is fit and proper that all articles, not the growth or manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, fhould be imported into each kingdom from the other reciprocally, under the fame regulations and at the fame duties, if fubject to duties, to which they are liable when imported directly from the place of their growth, product, or manufacture; and that all duties originally paid on importation into either country refpectively, "except on arrack "and foreign brandy, and on rum, "and all forts of ftrong waters, not "imported from the British colo"nies in the Weft Indies or Ame"rica," fhall be fully drawn back on exportation to the other. 4. That it is highly important to the general interests of the British empire, that the laws for regulating trade and navigation fhould be the fame in Great Britain and Ireland; and therefore, that it is effential towards carrying into effect the prefent fettlement, that all laws which have been made, or shall be made in Great Britain, for fecuring exclufive privileges to the fhips and mariners of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British colonies and plantations, and for regulating and re. ftraining the trade of the British colonies and plantations, fhall be in force in Ireland in the fame manner as in Great Britain; and that proper meafures fhould from time to time be taken, for effectually carrying the fame into execution. 5. That it is further effential to this fettlement, that all goods and [Aa] + commodities commodities of the growth, produce or manufacture of British or foreign colonies, in America or the Weft Indies, and the British or foreign fettlements on the coasts of Africa, imported into Ireland, fhould, on importation, be fubject to the fame duties as the like goods are, or from time to time shall be fubject to, upon importation into Great Britain. 6. That in order to prevent illi. cit practices, injurious to the revenue and commerce of both kingdoms, it is expedient that all goods, whether of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or of any foreign country, which fhall hereafter be imported into Great Britain from Ireland, or into Ireland from Great Britain, fhould be put, by laws to be paffed in the parliament of the two kingdoms, under the fame regulations with refpect to bonds, cockets, and other inftruments, to which the like goods are now fubject, in paffing from one port of Great Britain to another; and that all goods, the growth, produce, or manufacture of Ireland, imported into Great Britain, be accompanied with a like certificate, as is now required by law, on the importation of Irish li. nens into Great Britain. 7. That for the like purpose it is allo expedient that when any goods, the growth, produce, or manufac. ture of the British West India if. lands, fhall be shipped from Ireland for Great Britain, they fhould be accompanied with fuch original certificates of the revenue officers of the British fugar colonies, as shall be required by law on importation into Great Britain, and that when the whole quantity included in one certificate fhall not be shipped at any one time, the original certificate, properly endorfed as to quantity, should be fent with the firft parcel; and to identify the remainder, if fhipped at any future period, new certificates fhould be granted by the principal officers of the ports in Ire land, extracted from a register of the original documents, specifying the quantities before shipped from thence, by what vessels, and to what port. 8. That it is effential for carrying into effect the prefent fettlement, that all goods exported from Ireland to the British colonies in the Weft Indies or America, should from this time be made liable to fuch duties and drawbacks, and put under fuch regulations, as may be neceffary, in order that the fame may not be exported with lefs incumbrance of duties or impofitions than the like goods fhall be burthened with when exported from Great Britain. 9. That it is effential to the ge neral commercial intereft of the empire, that no goods of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope, fhould be importable into Ireland from any foreign European country; and that fo long as the parliament of this kingdom fhall think it advisable that the commerce to the countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope fhall be carried on folely by an exclufive company, no goods of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the faid countries fhould be allowed to be imported into Ire land, but through Great Britain, and that the fhips going from Great Britain to any of the faid countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope fhould not be reftrained from touching at any of the ports in Ireland, and e and taking on board there any of the goods of the growth, produce, or manufacture of that kingdom. 10. That it is neceffary, for the general benefit of the British empire, that no prohibition fhould exift in either country against the importation, ufe, or sale of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the other (except fuch as either "kingdom may judge expedient, "from time to time, upon corn, meal, mait, flour, and bifcuits,") and that the duty on the importation of every fuch article, if fubject to duty in either country, should be precifely the fame in the one country as in the other, except where an addition may be neceffary, in either country, in confequence of an internal duty on any fuch article of its own confumption. 11. That in all cafes where the duties on articles of the growth, product, 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 higheft, to the amount payable in the other; and that all fuch articles fhould be exportable from the kingdom into which they fhall be imported, as free from duty as any fimilar com. modities or home manufactures of the fame kingdom. 12. That it is alfo proper, that in all cases where the articles of the confumption of either kingdom fhall be charged with an internal duty on the manufacture, the fame manufacture, when imported from the other, may be charged with a further duty on importation, adequate to countervail the internal duty on the manufacture, except in the cafe of beer imported into Ireland; fuch farther duty to continue fo long only as the internal confumption shall be charged with the duty or duties, to balance which it fhall be impofed, and that where there is a duty on the importation of the raw material of any manufacture, in one kingdom, greater than the duty on the like raw material in the other, or where the whole or part of fuch duty on the raw material is drawn back, or compenfated, on exportation of the manufacture from one kingdom to the other, fuch manufacture may, on its importation, be charged with a countervailing duty as may be fufficient to subject the fame, fo imported, to the fame bur. dens as the manufacture composed of the like raw material is fubject to, in confequence of duties on the im portation of fuch material in the kingdom into which fuch manu. facture is fo imported; and the faid manufactures, fo imported, fhall be entitled to fuch drawbacks or bounties on exportation, as may leave the same subject to no heavier burden than the home-made manufacture. 13. That in order to give permanency to the fettlement now intended to be established, it is neceffary that no prohibition, or new or additional duties fhould be hereafter impofed in either kingdom, on the importation of any article of the growth, product, or manufacture of the other, except fuch additional duties as may be requifite to balance duties on internal confumption, purfuant to the foregoing refolution. 14. That for the fame purpose, it is neceffary, farther, that no prohibition, or new or additional duty, fhould be hereafter impofed in ei, ther kingdom on the exportation of any article of native growth, product, or manufacture, from thence to to the other; except fuch as either kingdom may deem expedient, from time to time, upon corn, meal, malt, flour, and bifcuits. 15. That for the fame purpofe it is neceffary that no bounties whatsoever fhould be paid or pay able in either kingdom, on the exportation of any article to the other, except fuch as relate to corn, meal, malt, flour, and biscuits, beer, and fpirits diftilled from corn, and fuch as are in the nature of drawbacks, or compenfations for duties paid; and that no bounty fhould be granted on the exportation of any article to any British colonies or plantations, or on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantations, or any manufacture made of fuch article, unless in cafes where a fimilar bounty is pay able in Great Britain, on exportation from thence, or where fuch bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compenfation of or for duties paid, over and above any paid thereon in Britain. 16. That it is expedient, for the general benefit of the British empire, that the importation of articles from foreign ftates fhould be regulated from time to time in each kingdom, on fuch terms as may af ford an effectual preference to the importation of fimilar articles of the growth, product, or manufacture of the other. 17. That it is expedient, that the copy-rights of the authors and bookfellers of Great Britain fhould continue to be protected in the manner they are at prefent, by the laws of Great Britain; and that it is juft that measures fhould be taken by the parliament of Ireland, for giving the like protection to the copy rights of the authors and booksellers of that kingdom. 18.That the appropriation of whatever fum the grofs hereditary reve. nue of the kingdom of Ireland (the due collection thereof being fecured by permanent provifion) fhall produce, after deducting all drawbacks, re-payments, or bounties granted in the nature of drawbacks, over and above the fum of fix hundred and fifty fix thousand pounds in each year, towards the fupport of the naval force of the empire, to be applied in fuch manner as the parliament of Ireland shall direct, by an act to be paffed for that purpose, will be a fatisfactory provifion, proportioned to the growing profperity of that kingdom, towards defraying in time of peace, the neceffary expences of protecting the trade and general interefts of the empire. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 17th refolutions, are NEW. The 12th and 18th resolutions are ALTERED. The words marked with inverted commas, in the 3d and 10th refolutions, are NEW. nourable the commons of Great Britain, upon their introduction into that honourable houfe, that they would be pleased to reject the fame, as unjust, unwife, unreafonable, and impolitic, not having either equity, equality, or reciprocity for their bafis; nor do they conceive, notwithftanding the many and great alterations which they have undergone in that honourable houfe, that THAT reciprocity is by any means eftablifhed, which can alone make them permanent; becaufe, as far as your petitioners are able to comprehend, the principles upon which they are founded are by no means either equal or equitable, as not affording a fuf. ficient protection to the manufac. tures of the country, in proportion to the very heavy burdens with which they are loaded, and from which thofe of Ireland are fo nearly exempted; added to which, linens, the ftaple manufacture of Ireland, are for ever to be admitted duty-free into this country, whilft not only the staple, but also every other manufacture of Great Britain, except that of linen, is to be charged with a duty of ten and an half per cent. upon their importation into Ireland, at the fame time that the amount of Irish linens, imported into Great Britain, is nearly equal in value to the whole of the British manufac tures exported to that country. Your petitioners humbly beg leave to ftate to this right honourable houfe, the difadvantages they labour under now, and have for fome time Tuffered in their foreign markets, through the partial, not to fay im. politic laws, in favour of Irish linens, to the exclufion of foreign linens from our market, and the depreffion of the British linen manufacture. In Ruffia there is now ex ifting an impoft of thirty per cent. ad valorem, upon fome of our Englifh manufactures; and in Germany a prohibitory edict has either already taken place, or is upon the point of fo doing, and which in all probability the determination of the British legislature on the Irish propofitions will tend to annul, or for ever confirm; if, therefore, inftead of leav ing an opening for a commercial regulation for thofe ftates who are fo able, and have hitherto fhewn themfelves fo willing, upon the true principles of reciprocity, to increafe in a very confiderable degree the confumption of British manufac tures, the legislature of this country fhould preclude themfelves from the power of hearkening to fair and advantageous offers, and fhould for ever bind themselves from doing so, it may merit the moft ferious confideration of this right honourable houfe, what meafures your petition. ers, as fubjects and manufacturers of this nation, are to expect from powers fo circumftanced. But your petitioners do not confine their views to the danger arifing immediately and directly from thefe propofitions, as affecting the manufactures of the town and neighbourhood of Marchefter only; but feel themfelves equally entitled as fubjects of this country, to proteft against all the propofitions, taken aggregately, as a new and deftruc tive fyftem of policy, which, by univerfally undermining the commercial interefts of Great Britain, muft confequently affect every intereft, trade, and manufacture within it, the profperity of which depends evidently upon the general wealth, commerce, and profperity of the whole nation. Your petitioners humbly beg leave to |