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< 3. How trade may most conveniently be driven from one part ofthe nation to another; to which purpose they are to consider howrivers may be made navigable, and ports more capable of shipping.

< 4. How the Commodities of England may be vented, to thebest advantage, into foreign countries, and not undervalued by illmanagement; how obstructions of trade into foreign parts may beremoved; and how new ways and places may be found out forbetter venting of native Commodities.

< 5. How free ports for foreign Commodities imported (withoutpaying of custom, if again exported) may be appointed, and in whatmanner the same is best to be affected.

< 6. To contrive a most exact account be kept of all Commodi-ties imported and exported, that a perfect balance of trade may betaken; whereby the Commonwealth may not be iinpoverished byreceiving of commodities yearly from foreign parts, of a greatervalue than what were carried out.

< 7. To consider the value of the english coin and the parthereof, in relation to the intrinsic value which it bears in weightand fineness with the coin of other nations; also of the state ofexchange, and of the gain or loss that comes to the Commonwealth by the exchange now used by merchants.

< 8. To inquire what customs, imports, and excise are fit to be laidupon all commodities, either native or imported; and how they may hebest regulated, and so equally laid and managed as neither trade maybe hindered, nor the state made incapable to defray public charges.

< 9. To consider whether it be neeessary to give way to a moreopen trade than that of Companies, and in what manner it is fittestto be done; wherein to take care that government and order intrade may be preserved, and confusion avoided.

< 10. To inform themselves of the particular ordinances, grants,Patents, and constitutions of the several Companies of merchantsand handicraftsmen, that, if any of them tend to the hurt of thepublic, they may be laid down.

< 11. To consider the great trade of fishing, not only upon thecoasts of England and Ireland, but likewise of Ireland, Greenlaud,Newfoundland, and New-England , or elsewhere; and to encouragofishermen, in order to the increase of shipping and mariners.

<12. To advise how the english plantations in America orelsewhere may be best managed; and how the commodities thereofmay be so multiplied that those plantations alone may supply theCommonwealth of England with whatsoever it necessarily wants.»

Die Mitglieder des Ausschusses sollten auch Vorschläge von Perso-nen, die in Handelssachen erfahren seien, entgegennehmen, Beamten desSchatzamts, der Münze , Zölle und indirekten Steuern vernehmen, undalle Akten einsehen können. Ihr Bericht sei dem Parlament vorzulegen.

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