For every Hundred Weight Avoirdupois of such British Coffee, Seven
Shillings.

For every Pound Weight Avoirdupois of such British Pimento, One
Halfpenny.

And after those Rates for any greater or lesser Quantity of such Goods
respectively.

And whereas an Act was made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late
Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the better securing
and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty’s Sugar Colonies in AMERICA,
which was to continue in Force for Five Years, to be computed from the
Twenty-fourth Day of June, One thousand seven hundred and thirty-three,
and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and which, by se-
veral subsequent Acts made in the Eleventh, the Nineteenth, the Twenty-
sixth, and Twenty-ninth, and the Thirty-first Years of the Reign of His said
late Majesty, was, from time to time, continued; and, by an Act made in
the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, was further continued
until the End of this present Session of Parliament; and although the said
Act hath been found in some Degree useful, yet it is highly expedient that
the same should be altered, enforced, and made more effectual; but, in
Consideration of the great Distance of several of the said Colonies and Plan-
tations from this Kingdom, it will be proper further to continue the said
Act for a short Space, before any Alterations and Amendments shall take
Effect, in order that all Persons concerned may have due and proper Notice
thereof; Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said
Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of H is late Majesty King George
the Second, intituled, An Act for the better securing and encouraging the
trade of his Majesty’s Sugar Colonies in AMERICA, shall be, and the same is
hereby further continued, until the Thirtieth Day of September, One thousand
seven hundred and sixty four.

And it be further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from the
Twenty ninth Day of September, One thousand seven hundred and sixty
four, the said Act, subject to such Alterations and Amendments as are
herein after contained, shall be, and the same is hereby made perpetual.

And it be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in lieu and
instead of the Rate and Duty imposed by the said Act upon Melasses and
Syrups, there shall, from and after the said Twenty ninth Day of September,
One thousand seven hundred and sixty four, be raised, levied, collected, and
paid, unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for and upon every
Gallon of Melasses or Syrups, being the Growth, Product, or Manufacture,
of any Colony or Plantation in America, not under the Dominion of His
Majesty, His Heir or Successors, which shall be imported or brought into
any Colony or Plantation in America, which now is, or hereafter may be,
under the Dominion of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, the Sum of
Three Pence.

And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Rates and Duties hereby charged upon such Foreign White or Clayed
Sugars, Foreign Indico, Foreign Coffee, Wines, Wrought Silks, Bengals,
and Stuffs, mixed with Silk or Herba, Callico, Cambricks, French Lawns,
and Foreign Melasses or Syrups, imported into any British American Colony
or Plantation shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, in the same Man-
ner and Form, and by such Rules, Ways and Means, and under such Pe-
nalties and Forfeitures (not otherwise altered by this Act) as are mentioned
and expressed in the said Act of Parliament, made in the Sixth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, with respect to the rai-