Excerpt from Studies in the Trade Relations of the British West Indies and North America, 1763-1773; 1783-1793: A Thesis Well grounded as the existing regulations were thus declared to be, they secured no permanent adoption for the space of more than four years. Enabling acts and orders in council, which differed in no essential respect from those of 1783, were issued in unbroken succession until The ministry, as it admitted, was merely testing the system,62 and to numerous protests and appeals returned steadily the answer that no reason for altering it had been shown.63 Whether or not the ministers were justified in adhering to their position we must now inquire. 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.