BRITAIN & AMERICA 1767-1812 - 25 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT

These Acts are disbound and altogether the 25 Acts run to 114 pages. Subjects under British law include the vexed problem of taxation on imports from North America (Rice,Sago and Vermicelli, rice etc), mutinous troops in the American colonies and laws regarding the transport of ‘Rice from… South and North Carolina and Georgia, directly to any Part of America to the Southward of the said Provinces’ (1769) Tea exports to Ireland are dealt with in an act of 1777 and two years later there is an Act designed to raise funds for the loyalist side in the Revolutionary War. The early 19th century group of Acts continues to dealwith the regulation of imports to Britain from the United States and cross-border trade into Canada. ($1500)

London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty

1767, Anno Septimo, Cap XXX - An Act for allowing the free Importation of Rice, Sago Powder, and Vermicelli… from North America, 4pp;

1767, Anno Septimo, Cap LV - An Act… for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, 4pp;

1767, Anno Octavo, Cap III - … for the free Importation of Indian Corn, or Maize, from any of His Majesty’s Colonies in America… 4pp;

1768, Anno Octavo, Cap IX - An Act for the Importation of Salted Beef [etc]... from the British Dominions in America…, 4pp;

1768, Anno Nono, Cap IV - An Act to allow for a further Time the free Importation of Rice into this Kingdom, from His Majesties Colonies in North America, 4pp;

1768, Anno Nono, Cap IX - to continue an Act… for Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter, from Ireland… and from the British Dominions in America…, 4pp;

1769, Anno Nono, Cap XVIII - An Act for amending… An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion…, 4pp;

1769, Anno Nono, Cap XXVII - for granting… a Liberty to carry Rice from… South and North Carolina and Georgia, directly to any Part of America to the Southward of the said Provinces…, 4pp;

1777, Anno Decimo Septimo, Cap XXVII - Drawback of the Duties of Customs on the Exportation of Tea to Ireland, 6pp;

1777, Anno Decimo Septimo, Cap XXXIV - … for the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to serve in His Majesty’s Ships of War…, 4pp;

1777, Anno Decimo Septimo, Cap XLIV - An Act… encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America… registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several counties of Great Britain… encouraging the manufacture of Leather… allowing Timber and Wood to be exported from the Island of Dominica… allowing a Bounty on the Exportation of British-made Cordage, 6pp;

1778, Anno Decimo Octavo, Cap LV - … to permit the Exportation of… Goods, directly from Ireland, into any British Plantation in America, or any British Settlement on the Coast of Africa; … Fisheries and Navigation of Ireland, 8pp;

1778, Anno Decimo Octavo, Cap LVIII - … to the preventing the Clandestine Conveyance of Sugar and Paneles from the British Colonies and Plantations in America…, 6pp;

1779, Anno Decimo Nono, Cap XLI - … granting a Drawback of Duties… upon all foreign Wines exported from Great Britain to any British Colony,,, in America, or… the East Indies, 4pp;

1779, Anno Decimo Nono, Cap LXXI - An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund… and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament, 23pp;

1801, Anno Quadragesimo Primo, Cap LXXVII - … the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador… 3pp;

1801, Anno Quadragesimo Primo, Cap XCVII - An Act to continue several Laws relating to encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland… at the Greenland Seas and Davis Streights… to the making of the Port of Saint John’s, in the Island of Antigua, a free Port… and to permitting the Importation of Goods… from Countries in America, belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign or State… 4pp;

1806, Anno Quadragesimo Sexto, Cap XVII - … to permit… the Exportation to the United Kingdom, of Wool from the British Plantations in America, 2pp;

1807, Anno Quadragesimo Septimo, Cap XXXVIII - … the Importation of certain enumerated Articles [eg Scantling Planks, Squared Timber, Horses, Neat Cattle, Gypsum, Grind Stones, etc] into the British Colonies on the Continent of North America…, 2pp;

1808, Anno Quadragesimo Octavo, Cap XXI - … to empower Commissioners appointed for distributing the Money paid by the United States of America…, 2pp;

1809, Anno Quadragesimo Nono, Cap XLVII - … to permit certain Articles, the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Europe, to be laden and shipped on board Ships arriving with British North American Produce…, 3pp;

1810, Anno Quinquagesimo, Cap XII - … for permitting the Importation of Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, and Timber for Naval Purposes… 2pp;

1810, Anno Quinquagesimo, Cap XIII - … for permitting the Exportation of Salt from the Port of Nassau… the Port of Exuma and the Port of Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands… Sugar and Coffee…, 2pp;

1811, Anno Quinquagesimo Primo, Cap XCVII - … to regulate the Trade between Places in Europe South of Cape Finisterre, and certain Ports in the British Colonies in North America, 3pp;

1812, Anno Quadragesimo Secundo, Cap LV - to Prevent Foreign Goods of Certain Descriptions being brought from the United States of America into Canada; and to allow a greater Quantity of Worsted Yarn to be exported from Great Britain to Canada, 2pp.