![Observations on Several Acts of Parliament, Passed in the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Years oF His Present Majesty’s Reign.1 Published by the Merchants of Boston. Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill. London: Reprinted for G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-Street, and J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, in Piccadilly. M.DCC.LXX. [Price One Shilling.]](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978100307/9781003074144.jpg "Observations on Several Acts of Parliament, Passed in the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Years oF His Present Majesty’s Reign.1 Published by the Merchants of Boston. Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill. London: Reprinted for G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-Street, and J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, in Piccadilly. M.DCC.LXX. [Price One Shilling.]")
ABSTRACT
One principal branch of the trade of the province is the fishery carried on to the Banks, in which there are upwards of three hundred vessels employed, besides a great number of boats in the Bay, and about ninety sail in the mackarel fishery. The fishery, the lumber trade and ship-building, are greatly promoted by the importation of molasses, and distilling it into rum, and the trade to Africa wholly depends on this article; so that any act which hath a tendency to obstruct the importation of molasses, must be prejudicial to Great Britain. The former acts, imposing duties on molasses, were intended only as a regulation of trade, and to encourage our own islands, and the duty was only on foreign molasses; but by these acts it is imposed on all molasses, and expressly for the purpose of raising a revenue.
