. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ENTRANCE TO TIIE BRITANNIA BRIDGE. British Board of Trade. By a. R. as early as the fourteenthcentury councils and commissions hadbeen formed from time to time to ad- Foreign Plantations. Abolished in 1675,the committee was revived twenty yearslater under William III, with the cele-brated John Locke as its secretary, andset to work to remove trade obstacles, oprovide employment for the poor and toimprove the state of the currency. Lockeretired in 1700 and the board again fellint
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ENTRANCE TO TIIE BRITANNIA BRIDGE. British Board of Trade. By a. R. as early as the fourteenthcentury councils and commissions hadbeen formed from time to time to ad- Foreign Plantations. Abolished in 1675,the committee was revived twenty yearslater under William III, with the cele-brated John Locke as its secretary, andset to work to remove trade obstacles, oprovide employment for the poor and toimprove the state of the currency. Lockeretired in 1700 and the board again fellinto comparative obscurity. In 1760 thecontrol of the Foreign Plantations was. ENTRANCE TO RAILWAY TUBULAR BRIDGE AT CONWAY CASTLE. vise Parliament in matters of trade, itwas not till the passing of Cromwellsfamous Navigation Act that any depart-ment of a permanent character was at-tempted. At the Restoration, in 1660, acommittee of the privy council was ap-pointed for the purpose of obtaining in-formation as to exports and imports and handed over to the newly constituted ofSceof secretary of state for the colonies andin 1780 the board succumbed to one ofBurkes impassioned attacks on the pub-lic services. Six years later the firstcommercial treaty between Britain andanother country was entered into withFrance and the Board of Trade was charge of all and occupying the positionvirtually of a secretary of state fortrade. In this way the railway depart-ment of the Board of Trade was formedin 1840, the marine department in 1850and the harbor and finance departmentsin 1866, all general matters not naturallyfalling to one of these being dealt withby the headquarters st
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