The Virginia Gazette

Besides the great pleasure we this week have from authoritatively pronouncing the utter repeal of the STAMP ACT. we can further gratify our readers with a list of the many bills in favour of America which our industrious friends in England have procured for us, and which we have undoubted authority will pass into laws before the breaking up of this session of Parliament.

1. To reduce the duty on foreign spirits from 3d to 1d. a gallon.
2. To obtain liberty to import foreign sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton, and indigo, into North America, as articles of commerce only, without payment of any duty, to be warehoused under the King's locks until exported for Europe.
3. To reduce the duty on all foreign sugar which shall be consumed in North America, as well whites as brown, to 5 s. per hundred.
4. To take off the duty on English coffee and pimenta.
5. To obtain liberty to import wine, fruit, and oil, directly from Spain and Portugal, with a duty of 4l. a tun on the wine only.
6. To reduce the duty on Madeira wine from 7l. to 4l. a tun.
7. To take off all the duties now payable in America on prohibited East India goods, and instead thereof to lay a duty of 5 percent. only on the East India Company, upon the importation of those articles into Great Britain.
8. To take off the duty in America of 3s. a piece on cambrick and French lawns, and lay it at the importation into Great Britain.
9. To make the island of Dominica a free port for all nations, under proper restrictions.
10. To remove some restrictions on the Spanish trade.
11. To restrain the power of Vice Admiralty courts in America, to matters merely marine.
12. To obtain relief in respect to paper currency.
13. To obtain liberty for vessels to have decks in inland navigation, [That is, to have the liberty, without the ceremony and cost of paying tunnage and fees, to pass from Virginia to Maryland, or from Maryland to Virginia, or any other island navigation on the continent of North America, by permit only.]