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Includes materials on sugar, molasses, and rum, with notes on statistics and revenue; West Indian trade (e.g., Dominica, Jamaica, Ceded Islands, Saint Lucia); free ports; trade with North America, including about the Navigation Act and "Abstracts from several Acts of Parliament relative to the Plantations"; cotton production. Other miscellaneous topics are the Office of Ordnance and saltpeter; Paving Bill; excise and duties; sale of cattle at fairs; militia; and more.

With materials relating to trade with the West Indies and North America; plantations in Florida; armed vessels on the Great Lakes; trade with Native Americans; free ports, including a memorandum in Townshend's hand; duties; debts and revenues; a "Scheme for an Union between Great Britain & her colonies by a Representation in Parliament." With additional items on Rhode Island; a ship seized in Mahon; a rough census of the counties in England and Wales, and items on elections and estates; material relating to the army; and more.

With content on various laws, acts, and trials, 1641-1765; a memorandum on Maryland; "Considerations on the present state of the Soobaship of Bengall with respect to its connections with the East India Company and the British Nation;" silk trade; financial affairs; Army expenses, disposition, number, and supplies granted.

With material relating to trade and duties; "extract from Report of the Board of Trade on the Grievances of the British Merchants trading to Portugal;" papers on the supply, ways and means, and other financial affairs; excises and duties; Parliamentary issues; expenses of government at Massachusetts Bay; and more.

Bulk relating to House of Commons and politics.

Includes propositions, resolutions, and proposals in the House of Commons; copies of petitions; army and navy expenses for forces employed in East India Company services; miscellaneous items on revenue, charters, and financial affairs.

Includes debts, credits, expenses, and other financial matters, including those relating to "wars & disturbances"; imports from India and other trade details; a list of the East India Company directors; acts, bills, firmauns, and charters relative to the company; and more.

Includes copies of agreements and treaties; material relating to finances, such as the value of the Bengal Rupee, revenue and expenses, Treasury of Bengal debts and credits; resolutions and proposals; "Extracts from Govr. Vansittart's History of Bengal;" alphabetical list of names and residences of stockholders.

Includes a copy of the Journal of the General Assembly of New York, November to December 1766 a "Paper concerning Lands in North America;" an extract of a letter from Mr. Masares of Quebec; draft instructions "given to the Officers of the Customs in the Island of Dominica & Jamaica;" and "Proposals for Establishing Paper Currency for North America."

With content relating to whale fisheries; chinaware, earthenware, and porcelain; silk, other fabrics, and weaving; "Salop Powder, Vermicelli and Soy" produced in Georgia; starch; coal; glass, with various trade proposals and regulations. Additional content relates to appointments; land improvements; registers; the consulate at Tripoli; the Turkey Company; stamp duties; miscellaneous army and navy matters; captured ships; land taxes; forfeited and annexed estates; other legal cases and disputes, and more.