Commerce

1816 · WRCAM39129 — London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 1816. 2pp. plus docket title printed on verso of second leaf. Folio. Early horizontal folds. Near fine untrimmed. Official Parliamentary draft printing of a commercial agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States passed just over a year after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The convention of commerce establishes that the same import and export duties be applied to goods carried by American and British ships in direct British- American commerce. Duties on and bounties for prize ships and goods are also put on the same terms. This version of the bill would have been printed while the question was being considered by Parliament. Not in Kress or TPL and not listed on OCLC. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed unknown books