certain subsisting acts relative to private trade.

XXIV. Goods imported or exported by the Company, to be sub

XVII. No article of silk, hair, or cotton wools imported under this act, are to be entered or taken out of any warehouse, except for exportation, unless they shall have been brought into the port of London, and deposited in the Company's warehouses; in which case they shall be put up to public sale, and if bought in by the owners, shall be delivered out to them upon paying the duties and charges.

XVIII. The Treasury, however, may authorize such articles, when brought to the out ports, to be reinoved to the port of London for the purpose of being sold for home consumption, under the same regulations as if originally imported there.

XIX. Such articles imported either at London or elsewhere, and taken out of the warehouses for exportation, to be charged duty ad valorem.

XX. Nothing in this act is to extend to prevent, during the further term granted to the Company, such further provisions by Parliament as may be necessary for the carrying on private trade directly or circuitously within the Company'siimits, except to China,, and without prejudice to the restrictions hereafter mentioned with respect to the resort to and residence of persons in the East Indies. XXI. XXII. XXIII. Repeal of

XXV. No duties imposed by the authorities in India to be valid till sanctioned by the Court of Directors, and approved by the Board of Commissioners.

XXVI. XXVII. Repeal of the act 33 Geo, III. granting a duty to the Company on private trade from the East Indies; but with a proviso that the repeal shall not, release the duty of 3 per cent, on articles of silk, hair, and cotton, wool deposited in the Company's warehouses in London, or the duties on articles imported from China, or the engagements be-, tween the Company and the captains and officers of their ships.

XXVIII. XXIX. Regulations respecting security for the rates granted by Parliament to the East India Dock Company.

XXX. XXXI. Authority grant-, ed to make use of India-built ships until August 1, 1814, unless provision be made respecting the same in the next session of Parliament; . also, power given to his Majesty in Council to authorize private traders to use India-built ships during the same term. Such ships declared not liable to forfeiture.

XXXII. Regulations respecting, ships engaged in the Southern. Whale Fishery.

XXXIII. XXXIV. XXXV., XXXVI. Relate to persons desirous of going to India for the pur-„ pose of promoting the religious aud, moral improvement of the natives. If the Court of Directors thick fit to refuse the applications for per-,

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mission made in behalf of such persons, they are to transmit the applications to the Board of Commissioners, who, if they see no valid objection to granting the permission, may authorize the said persons to proceed to any of the Company's principal settlements, provided with a certificate of sanction from the Directors. The Court of Directors, however, may make representations concerning such persons to the Board of Commissioners; and those persons on arriving in the East Indies are to be subject to the regulations of the local govern ments. Further, the governments in India may declare the certificates and licences of such persons to be void, if they shall appear by their conduct to have forfeited their claim to protection.

XXXVII. Governors in India not to authorize the residence of any of his Majesty's subjects within the Company's limits, without a licence of the Court of Directors, except under particular circum

stances.

XXXVIII. The Board of Commissioners may authorize persons to reside within certain limits out of the Company's government.

XXXIX. His Majesty's subjects may go and reside without licence at places more southward than 11 degrees south latitude, more westward than 64 degrees east longitude, and more eastward than 150 degrees.

X Unlicensed persons trading to or going within the limits of the Company's charter, otherwise than as allowed by this act, to be subject to the penalties of illicit traders. Y

XLI Ships driven by stress of weather or accidents, within the

proscribed limits not to be subjected to forfeiture.

XLII. The Board of Commissioners invested with full power to superintend and controul every instruction and regulation relative to the Company's colleges and se minaries.

XLIII. to XLVIII. Relate to the schools, seminaries, and colleges of the Company in India and England.

XLIX. to LIV. Church establishment in India. A bishop and three archdeacons to be appointed; their salaries; episcopal jurisdiction to be limited by letters patent from the King; pensions to be allowed after fifteen years service.

LV. Application of the revenues arising from the territorial acquisitions in India. The order of precedence appointed is, 1st, in maintaining the military force; 2. in paying the interest of debts owing by the Company in England; 3. in paying the expenses of the Company's establishments at their settlements; 4. towards the liquidation of the territorial debt of the Company, its bond debt at home, or such other purposes as the Directors, with approbation of the Board of Controul, may order.

LVI. A sum equal to the payments made from the commercial funds at home, on account of territorial charges in the year preceding, is to be annually issued in India for the purpose of investment or of remittance to England.

LVII. Application of the profits of the Company in Great Britain, 1. in the payment of accepted bills of exchange; 2. in providing for the payment of other debts (the principal of the bond debt excepted); 3. in payment of the divi

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dend of India stock at the rate of 10 per cent. till the fund called the Separate Fund is exhausted, after which, the dividend shall be 10 per cent; 4. in reduction of the principal of the debt in India, or the bond debt at home.

LVIII. Some regulations respecting home profits.

LIX When the debt of the Company in India shall have been reduced to ten millions sterling, and the bonded debt in Great Britain to three millions, the surplus proceeds to be employed, 1st, in repayment of the capital of any publie funds created for the Company; 2d, in forming a guarantee fund not exceeding twelve millions, for security of the capital stock of the Company and its dividend; 3. any further surplus to be divided in the proportion of one-sixth to the Company, and five-sixths to the public.

LX. If after reduction of the Company's debts they shall again increase, the surplus proceeds shall again be employed in the same manner for their reduction.

After some further articles relative to the payments and accounts of the Company, the LXVIIIth enacts, that the Board of Commissioners be invested with full power to controul the appropriation of any part of the territorial revenues of the Company, except the sums directed by this act to be issued in India for the purpose of making good payments at home on ac ccount of territorial charges, or of loans in India.

By another article, the number of his Majesty's forces, for which payment is to be made by the Company, is determined not to exceed 20,000, including commissioned and non-commissioned officers, unless a greater number be sent to India on the requisition of the Court of Directors.

All the remaining articles relate to particular regulations respecting the Company's servants, officers, judicial proceedings, &c. of which it appears unnecesary here to give an abstract, as being of little concern to the public in general.

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Mr. William Gilpin, for an im proved method of making augers. Mr. James Needham, for a portable apparatus for brewing beer and ale.

Mr. Charles Random de Berenger, for certain methods of producing a valuable oil; also soap and barilla, and a black pigment.

Mr. Louis Honore Henry Germain Constant, for a method of refining sugar.

Mr. Charles Augustus Schmal

calder, for improvements in mathematical instruments.

Mr. James Needham, for addi tions to and improvements on his portable brewing apparatus.

Mr. John Trotter, for improvements in the application of steam.

Mr. Thomas Hardacre, for a composition to prevents the effects of friction.

Mr. Samuel Smith, for an improved escapement for watches.

Mr. Felton Matthew, for an improve

improvement in the manufacture of yeast.

Mr. John White, for a machine for cooking without coal or wood. Mr. Handford, for a travelling trunk.

Mr. Thomas Ryland, for a fender on a new construction.

Mr Robert Dickinson, for a pro. cess for sweetening water and other liquids,

Mr. John Trotter, for an improvement of musical instruments. Mrs. Sarah Guppy, for urns for cooking eggs, &c.

Mr. Joseph Manton, for improvements in guns.

Mr. Timmins, for an improved method of making and erecting hot-houses.

Mr. Hanbury, for flush carpeting.

Mr. Ball, for an improved cooking stove.

Mr. Benjamin Merriman Coomb, for a new cooking apparatus.

Mr. John Roberts, for a method of concentrating such parts of malt and hops as are requisite in making ale and beer.

Messrs. Eschauzier and Jennings, for a life preserving bed for seafaring people.

Mr. T. Sheldrake, for a portable

@rane.

Mr. Francis Deakins, for a new method of making sheaths for knives, scissars, &c.

Mr John Sutherland, for an improvement in the construction of Copper stills.

Mr. William Broughton, for a method of making a peculiar species of canvas.

Messrs. Thomas Hubball and I. R. W. King, for a method of ornamenting articles of paper, wood,

or any metallic substance, either japanned, painted, or sized; also leather, oil cloths, &c.

Mr. William Caslon, for an improved printing type.

Mr. Charles Augustin Busby, for a method to save lockage water on canals, &c.

Mr. Joseph Bramah, for im provements in main and other pipes, and applying the water to other useful purposes.

Mr. Frank Parkinson, for a still and boiler for preventing accidents by fire.

Mr. John Westwood, for a method of embossing ivory by pressure.

Mr. Jacob Brazill, for a machine for working capstans and pumps on board ships.

Mr. Joseph Ragnor, for improv ed machinery for roving and spinning cotton, silk, flax, and wool.

Col. William Congreve, for cou structing the locks and sluices of canals, basins, or works.

The Rev. Henry Liston, for im provements upon the plough.

Mr. Henry Osborn, for a method of making tools for tapering of cylinders and bars of iron and other metals.

Mr. Robertson Buchanan, for improvements in the means of propelling vessels, boats, barges, and rafts, &c.

Mr. George Alexander, for an improved mode of suspending the card of the mariner's compass.

Messrs. Fox and Lean, for improvements in steam engines,

Mr. Joseph C. Dyer, for a method of spinning hemp, flax, &c.

Mr. Samuel James, for a scía for the ease of invalids.

Mr. John Barton, for improvements in steam engines.

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