4992. MANUFACTURES, British prohibition of.—[continued].
By an act passed in the twenty-third year of King George II., the iron
which we make, we are forbidden to manufacture;
and, heavy as that article is, and necessary
in every branch of husbandry, besides
commission and insurance, we are to pay
freight for it to Great Britain, and freight
for it back again, for the purpose of sup
porting, not men, but machines in the island
of Great Britain.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 129.
Ford ed., i, 434.
(1774)
See Trade.
