The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 272
... foreign - built ship could engage in the Plantation trade after December of that year . This Act was itself explained by several subsequent Acts , and in a number of cases foreign - built ships were made " free " by Orders in Council ...
... foreign - built ship could engage in the Plantation trade after December of that year . This Act was itself explained by several subsequent Acts , and in a number of cases foreign - built ships were made " free " by Orders in Council ...
Page 581
... FOREIGN 581 Now that the British West Indies had serious competitors , it be- came of some significance that the principle of enumeration merely governed the question of the first destination of exported sugar . Great Britain had as a ...
... FOREIGN 581 Now that the British West Indies had serious competitors , it be- came of some significance that the principle of enumeration merely governed the question of the first destination of exported sugar . Great Britain had as a ...
Page 582
... foreign sugar , rum or molasses . The planters did not realise that it was futile to attempt to keep up prices unless they could control the supply of sugar . The exclusion of French sugar from the British West Indies merely drove it to ...
... foreign sugar , rum or molasses . The planters did not realise that it was futile to attempt to keep up prices unless they could control the supply of sugar . The exclusion of French sugar from the British West Indies merely drove it to ...
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