Excerpt from Observations Upon the Warehousing System and Navigation Laws: With a Detailed Account of Many of the Burthens to Which the Shipping and Trade Are Subjected, Particularly as Connected With the Port of London IT will be fresh in the recollection of the Public, that petitions were presented last year to both Houses of Parliament, praying a revision of the Laws relating to Trade and Navigation, and that Committees were appointed to whom the subject was referred, with instructions to enquire into the state of our foreign Trade, the burthens imposed upon it, and to consider of the means or maintaining and improving it. 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.