Author: West India Planters and Merchants

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780656672233

Excerpt from Report of the Acting Committee to the Standing Committee of West India, Planters and Merchants: 13th January, 1847 Shortly after the meeting of the Standing Com mittee in July last, Parliament determined, by a large majority, to repeal the Corn-laws. Although the discriminating duties on sugar were, in their origin and design, very different from the restric tions upon the importation of corn, -yet, having some analogy, and having long been the object of assiduous misrepresentation, they were so associated in the public mind, that, as soon as the greater ques tion was settled, it became evident that these duties would undergo early revision. It was in anticipa tion of this event that the Acting Committee, in their Report to the half-yearly meeting in March last, expressed their conviction that the Colonies would not be unwilling to encounter extended com petition, if even partially prepared for so formidable a conflict by the immediate concession of those measures which they had a right to claim as preli minary to any further change of policy towards them. No concession, however, was made to pre pare for such a change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.