Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-115043

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Title:: Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Agriculture

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A.D. 1689 -1776. and grant- ing boun- Hes on export. New- fashioned textiles of silk 516 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM 1745, when a penalty of five pounds was imposed on those who should wear French cambrics or lawn; a similar fine was imposed on those who sold it’. Anderson® expresses doubt as to whether it was seriously intended to try to enforce such a measure; but it is in full accord with the policy which was habitually pursued, of giving as much ancouragement to the native linen manufacture as could be done without interfering with the supremacy of the cloth trade; and the facts, that it was amended after three years’ time, and that the Commons refused to repeal it even when its futility was demonstrated? seem to show that the legislators were perfectly in earnest. Parliament also had recourse to another expedient, which found favour at the time, for fostering the silk trade, an industry which did not owe its introduction to, but was at all events invigorated by, the Huguenot immigration. The legislature not only tried i promote home consumption, but to stimulate the export rade as wells This whole system of bounties was a most sxtravagant mode of encouraging the new industries and gave rise to effective criticism, especially as there was con- siderable doubt in many minds as to the advisability of introducing these manufactures at all. They were for the most part exotic trades, the materials of which were not of English growth? The silk manufacture was the business which was specially cared for; and curiously enough, the new trades, which eventually attained the greatest importance, were so far from being favoured that they were positively dis- couraged. The woollen manufacturers were exceedingly 1 18 Geo. II. c. 86 re-enforced by 21 Geo. II. c. 26. 4 His work was incorporated by Macpherson, Annals, 1. 245. 3 Sir J. Barnard’s Speech (1753), Parl. Hist. Xv. 163. 4 In 1722 a bounty of three shillings a pound was granted on the exportation of silks, four shillings on silk mixed with gold or silver. and one shilling on silk stockings. 8 Geo. I. c. 15. § Davenant, Essay on the East India Trade, in Works, 1. 99; also Arthur Young, in Farmer's Letters, p. 17, condemns the pains taken to develop such manufactures. J. Massie writes with great discrimination on the kinds of manu- tacture to be encouraged and the importance of native materials, Representation soncerning the Knowledge of Commerce, 20; Plan for the establishment of Charity Houses, p. 10; Reasons against laying any further British duties on Wrought Silks. D. 4.

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