| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for opening and establishing certain Ports in the Islands of Jamaica and Dominica, for the more free Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandizes; for granting certain Duties, to defray the Expenses of opening, maintaining, securing, and improving, much Ports; for ascertaining the Duties to be paid upon the Importation of Goods from the Said Island of Dominica into this Kingdom; and for securing the Duties upon Goods imported from the Said Island into any other British Colony. |
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| Citation | 6 Geo. 3. c. 49 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 6 June 1766 |
| Repealed | 15 July 1867 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Statute Law Revision Act 1867 |
Status: Repealed | |
The British Free Port Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 49) opened six British ports in the West Indies to foreign merchants, and enabled English colonists to conduct trade with French and Spanish colonies.[1]
It was passed in 1766 following the Seven Years’ War and prior to the American Revolution. The act was a modified version of one in use by the French and Dutch.[2]
- ^ John E. Crowley. "Common-place: Object Lessons". Historycooperative.org. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- ^ Parry, John H (1954). "Reviewed work: The Free Port System in the British West Indies, F. Armytage". Revista de Historia de América (37/38): 364–367. JSTOR 20136860.