ry act passed in the preceding session as related to the three per
centum annuities, amounting to the sum of seven millions five hundred
and ninety thousand pounds, granted in the year one thousand seven
hundred and fifty-nine; and also to consider so much of the said act as
related to the subsidy of poundage upon certain goods and merchandise to
be imported into this kingdom, and the additional inland duty on
coffee and chocolate. The committee having taken these points into
deliberation, agreed to the two resolutions we have already mentioned
with respect to the consolidation; and a bill was brought in for adding
those annuities granted in the year one thousand seven hundred
and fifty-nine, to the joint stock of throe per centum annuities
consolidated by the acts of the twenty-fifth, twenty-eighth,
twenty-ninth, and thirty-second years of his majesty's reign, and for
several duties therein mentioned, to the sinking fund. The committee
was afterwards empowered to receive a clause for cancelling such
lottery tickets as were made forth in pursuance of an act passed in the
thirtieth year of his majesty's reign, and were not then disposed of: a
clause for this purpose was accordingly added to the bill, which passed
through both houses without opposition, and received the royal assent at
the end of the session.

BILL FOR SECURING MONIES FOR THE USE OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

On the twenty-ninth day of April, lord North presented to the house a
bill for encouraging the exportation of rum and spirits of the growth,
produce, and manufacture of the British sugar-plantations, from Great
Britain, and of British spirits made from molasses; a bill which in a
little time acquired the sanction of the royal assent. Towards the end
of April, admiral Town-shend presented a bill for the more effectual
securing the payment of such prize and bounty-monies as were
appropriated to the use of Greenwich hospital, by an act passed in the
twenty-ninth year of his majesty's reign. As by that law no time was
limited, or particular method prescribed, for giving notifications
of the day appointed for the payment of the shares of the prizes
and bounty-money; and many agents had neglected to specify, in the
notification given in the London Gazette for payment of shares of prizes
condemned in the courts of admiralty in Groat Britain, the particular
day or time when such payments were to commence, whereby it was rendered
difficult, if not impossible