The Origin and Proceedings of the Agricultural Associations in Great Britain, in Which Their Claims to Protection Against Foreign Produce, Duty-Free, (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1820 Excerpt: ... mission given by our present laws to import similar productions to those of our own soil'on the terms hereinafter set forth. That a comparative view of the protection which the agricultural produce, and the commerce and manufactures of the country have respectively received, will immediately prove the defenceless state of the one, and the highly protected state of the others, notwithstanding the Agriculture of the country requires as much skill, employs much more capital, and many more hands, than all the trades and manufactures of the country put together. PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. IMPORT DUTY-, . By the 55 Geo. III. ct 26, all com, meal, or' 'flour, the growth, produce, or manufacture of any foreign country, which might then by law be imported into the united kingdom, shall and may at all times be allowed to be brought into the united kingdom, and be wareh used, &c. withoutpaymentof anyduty whatever. That such corn, meal, or flour, mav be taken out of warehouse, and entered for home consumption, without payment of 0 0 0 any duty whatever, whenever the average prices of the several sorts of British corn, made up and published in the manner then by law required, should be at or above the prices thereinafter mentioned (that is to say): wheat at or above 80s. per qr.; rye, peas, and beans, at or above 53s. per qr.; barley, beer, or bigg, at or above 40s. per qr.; and Oats, at or above-37. per qr Wool, of. per cwt. or per lb. about 0 0 Flax dressed, in British vessels, per cwt 6 15 rito, not British, per cwt 7 I Undressed, ... in British, per cwt. 0 0 Jitto, not ditto, per cwt. 0 0 Hemp dressed 5 6 Not dressed 0 5 Hides, each 0 0 Seeds, clover, &c. at per cwt. 0 6 Butter, . ditto 1 0 PROTECTION TO COMMERCE. By the 12th Chas. II. e. 18, commonly called t...