An act to continue several laws therein mentioned relating to the better encouragement of the making of sail cloth in Great Britain
Subtitle: to the encouragement of the silk manufactures; and for taking off several duties on merchandize exported, and reducing other duties; to the free importation of cochineal and indico [sic]; to the prohibiting the importation of books printed abroad, and first composed, written, and printed in Great Britain; to securing the duties upon foreign-made sail cloth, and charging foreign-made sails with a duty; to the allowing a bounty in the exportation of British corn and grain in neutral ships; to the allowing the exportation of provisions, goods, wares, and merchandizes, to certain places in North America. which are or may be under the protection of His Majesty's arms, and from such places to Great Britain, and other parts of His Majesty's dominions; to the impowering His Majesty to prohibit the exportation, and restrain the carrying coastwise, of copper in bars, or copper in sheets; and to the allowing the exportation of certain quantities of wheat, and other articles, to His Majesty's sugar colonies in America..
Contributors: Great Britain. Parliament; Eyre, Charles, printer; Strahan, William, 1715-1785, printer
Publisher: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty.
Published: 1782
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Marine canvas work; Early works to 1800; Silk industry; Law and legislation; Book industries and trade; Cochineal; Indigo industry; Copper; Foreign trade regulation; Tariff
Other titles: Anno vicesimo secundo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XIII; Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, vicesimo secundo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the thirty-first day of October, anno Domini 1780, .. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the twenty-seventh day of November, 1781; being the second session of the fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain.
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Public general acts)
Notes: Title from title of act, p. 375.

Caption title, p. 375: Anno vicesimo secundo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XIII.

Imprint from general title page.

Signatures: 5B-5C² (5B1 verso blank).

Issued separately with a general title page, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, vicesimo secundo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the thirty-first day of October, anno Domini 1780, .. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the twenty-seventh day of November, 1781; being the second session of the fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain.'.

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