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half per cent. ad valorem, for the use of us and our
successors. And, that the said duty may more effectually
 be collected, we do hereby ordain that all ships
or vessels bound from Great Britain to any other
part of the world, or from any other part of the world
to Great Britain, shall in their respective voyages
touch at our port of Koningsberg, there to be unladen,
 searched, and charged with the said duties.
“ And whereas there hath been from time to time
discovered in the said island of Great Britain, by our
colonists there, many mines or beds of iron-stone;
and sundry subjects of our ancient dominion, skilful
in converting the said stone into metal, have in time
past transported themselves thither, carrying with
‘hem and communicating that art; and the inhabitants
 of the said island, presuming that they had a
natural right to make the best use they could of the
natural productions of their country for their own
benefit, have not only built furnaces for smelting the
said stone into iron, but have erected plating-forges,
slitting-mills, and steel-furnaces, for the more convenient
 manufacturing of the same; thereby endangering
a diminution of the said manufacture in our ancient
dominion; we do therefore hereby further ordain
that, from and after the date hereof, no mill or other
engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any platingforge
 to work with a tilt-hammer, or any furnace for
making steel, shall be erected or continued in the said
island of great Britain. And the lord-lieutenant of
every county in the said island is hereby commanded,
on information of any such erection within his county,

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