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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 17
p. 411
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Colonies in North America we see no reason why his Majesty may
not be graciously Pleased to Permit the Inhabitants of the said
Colonies to Export their Corn and other Provisions to the Madeiras
and to the European Dominions of Princes and States in Amity
with his Majesty but we are Humbly of Opinion that Such
Exportation should only be Permitted under the Restrictions which
the said Act of Parliament Prescribes for regulating the Exportation
from the Colonies to any other part of his Majesty's Dominions,
and that they should be inserted, with such Alterations as the
Circumstances of the different Cases may require in the Proclama-
tion or order in Council, Whereby his Majesty may think Proper
to grant Such Permission those Restrictions would as we Conceive
effectually prevent the Fraudulent Conveyance of any such Pro-
visions directly to the Ports of the Enemy and the great Expence
of a Double Freight on Comodities so bulky, would it may be Pre-
sumed, prevent their being carried thither by a Second Voyage
We are, My Lords
Your Lordships most Obed.t
Humble Serv.ts
Signed Dunk Halifax
James Oswald
W. G. Hamilton
Whitehall Council Office 23,d Aug.t 1758.
My Lord
The Petition of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly of
Maryland to the King, Praying to be Permitted to Export Corn &c.a
having upon your Lordships Application been referred by his Maj-
esty to the Lords of the Committee of his Privy Council their
Lordships took the Same into their Consideration and Observing
that mention was made therein that a full representation of this
matter had been Transmitted to the board of Trade their Lordships
therefore thought Proper to refer the said Petition to that Board to
Consider, the whole of this affair, and report their opinion thereupon :
which the said Board having accordingly done I transmit herewith
a Copy of their report, that your Lordship may be apprized of
what the said Board have proposed to be done, your Lordship will
be pleased to Observe that they have reported against Complying
with that part of the Petition which prays to be relieved from the
Restrictions under which the Act of Parliament permits the Ex-
portation of Grain &c. to great Britain Ireland or the Plantations
and as to the other part of the Petition which prays leave to export
Corn &c.a to places Prohibited by the said Act, the Board of Trade
have given no Opinion thereupon, but say that as the Scarcity of
Corn in this Kingdom was the Occasion of passing the said Act,
if the Lords of the Committee should be of Opinion that this Country
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