AN ACT TO PERMIT THE EXPORTATION OF CERTAIN GOODS, DIRECTLY FROM IRELAND, INTO ANY BRITISH PLANTATION IN AMERICA, OR ANY BRITISH SETTLEMENT ON THE COAST OF AFRICA; and for further encouraging the Fisheries and Navigation of Ireland. Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magna Britannia, Francia, & Hibernia, DECIMO OCTAVO. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

[ACTS OF PARLIAMENT]; [IRELAND AND TRADE WITH THE AMERICAN COLONIES]:

Published by London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan., 1778

About this Item

First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 1007-1012. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning, slight separation and minor wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An act restoring Ireland's ability to export goods directly to the colonies in the Americas and Africa, issued in the context of the American Revolutionary War, and amending what became known as the Navigation Acts. Restricting the freedoms of Britain's colonies with regard to the import and export of goods, the Navigation Acts had been a significant factor in fermenting rebellious discontent in America - requiring all of a colony's imports to be either bought from Britain or resold by British merchants in Britain, regardless of the price obtainable elsewhere. The acts were also resented in Ireland and damaged its economy, as they permitted the importation of English goods into Ireland tariff-free and simultaneously imposed tariffs on Irish exports travelling in the opposite direction. The present act, removing some of these barriers, demonstrates the changing nature of British mercantilism as the American Revolution progressed. Seller Inventory # 1076

Bibliographic Details

Title: AN ACT TO PERMIT THE EXPORTATION OF CERTAIN ...

Publisher: London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan.

Publication Date: 1778

Edition: 1st Edition