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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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British government reinstates bounties on hemp and flax imports from American colonies, originally granted by Queen Anne, with rates of 8, 6, and 4 pounds per ton over successive 7-year periods to boost production as naval stores. Annual consumption averages over 300,000l.
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of our Colonies which were first given by Queen
Anne, and continued by several other acts, being
suffered to drop, the culture of hemp did not suc-
ceed, and hardly any was imported; but the en-
crease of the Colonies having enabled them to
attend to it again, the bounties of eight pounds
per ton for seven years, of six pounds per ton for
the next seven years, and of four pounds for ano-
ther term of seven years more, are allowed on all
hemp imported from America.
The same bounties on the like quantities of
flax imported, from thence, are, so far as that
also is a naval store, likewise granted.
Our whole consumption of hemp for the last
ten years, amount, at a medium, to more than
300,000l. per annum.
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America
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bounties reinstated: 8 pounds per ton for first 7 years, 6 for next 7, 4 for following 7; annual hemp consumption over 300,000l.
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Bounties on hemp and flax from colonies, first given by Queen Anne and later dropped, are now reinstated due to colonial growth, encouraging import of these naval stores with scaled rates over 21 years.