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§ 17. AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That for preventing any Difficulties about afcertaining, get- Scotland to ting in, and receiving, all fuch Sums of tranfmit exact Copies of CerMoney as fhall for the future become due tificates to the and payable by Law, as a Duty of Six- don, for recopence per Month from all Seamen who are very of Money or fhall be employed in the Service of the wich Hofpital, British White Herring Fishery, for the from Seamen Support of the Royal Hofpital at Greenwich, the Whitethe Commiffioners for the Time being of ery. his Majefty's Cuftoms, or of Excife if in Scotland, as the Cafe may be, fhall, and they are hereby required, from Time to Time, after the Commencement of this Act, to tranfmit, or caufe to be tranfmitted, with all convenient Speed, to the Office of the Receiver for the Time being of the faid Duty in London, a true and exact Copy of every Certificate which fhall, from Time to Time, after the faid Commencement, be transmitted to them the faid Commiffioners, by all or any of the refpective Collectors and Comptrollers of the feveral Out-ports in Great Britain, in order to the faid Commiffioners caufing Payment to be made of the Bounty of Thirty Shillings per Ton, purfuant to the Directions of an Act of Parliament made in the Twenty-third Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the British White Herring Fifbery

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A& 2 Geo.III. recited;

Anno decimo nono

GEORGII III. Regis.

Cap. 26...

An Act to continue and amend an Act made in the Eleventh Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the White Herring Fishery.

WH

HEREAS, by an Act made in the "Eleventh Year of the Reign of "his prefent Majefty, (intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the White Her"ring Fishery), it was enacted, for the "better Regulation of the faid Trade, "and for preventing Frauds and Impofi"tions in the Management thereof, That "from and after the Twenty-fecond Day " of October, One thoufand feven hun"dred and feventy-one, a Bounty of

Thirty Shillings per Ton fhould be paid annually, in Manner as in the faid Act "is provided for, to the Owner or Own"ers of all decked Veffels, from Twenty

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"to Eighty Tons Burthen, that should be "fitted out and employed in the said Fish

ery, in Manner and under the Regu"lations mentioned in the faid Act, and "that for the Space and Term of Seven "Years from and after the faid Twenty" fecond Day of October, One thousand "feven hundred and feventy-one, and to "the End of the then next enfuing Seffion "of Parliament: And whereas the faid "Fishery is of the greatest Importance to "the Nation, by promoting useful Induftry, providing for great Numbers of

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poor People, and ferving as a Nursery "for Seamen, but the fame cannot be "carried on without the Aid of a Boun

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ty; and as a Prolongation of the above"recited Act, (which expires at the End "of this present Seffion of Parliament), "will be of great Advantage to the Pu"blic:" May it therefore please your Majefty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Ma-continued jefty, by and with the Advice and Con- (except as affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, for 15 Years. ter excepted) and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the faid Act, and all the Powers, Provifions, Claufes, and Penalties, therein contained, (except as herein after is excepted), fhall, from and after the Term therein mentioned, be, and the same are

hereby

hereby granted and continued for and during the further Term of Seven Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, and fhall, during fuch additional Term, be in full Force, and be put in Execution, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the fame were again repeated, and reenacted in the Body of this present Act.

Part of Claufe 2. AND whereas great Inconvenienin the faid A&t cies have arifen to the faid Fishery, and repealed. to the Perfons employed therein, by

reafon of Part of a Claufe in the faid Act, which enacts, "That, every Bufs or "Veffel fhall proceed, refpectively man"ned, furnished, and accoutred, (as "therein mentioned), either to Yarmouth,

in the County of Norfolk; Whitehaven,

in the County of Cumberland; and Leith, "in the County of Edinburgh; Inverness, "in the County of Inverness; or to Braffey Sound, in Shetland; Campbelltown, or "Oban, in Argylefhire; or Kirkwall, in "Orkney; and be at the Rendezvous of the faid Fishery there on or before the Twenty fecond Day of June, and shall "not fhoot or wet their Nets before the Twenty-fourth Day of the faid Month of June, and fhall continue fifhing to the Twelfth Day of October; or fhall "proceed to Yarmouth, in the County of "Norfolk; Whitehaven, in the County of "Cumberland;

"Cumberland; Leith, in the County of Edinburgh; Inverness, in the County of "Inverness; or to Braffey Sound, in Shet"land; Campbelltown, or Oban, in Argyle fhire; or Kirkwall, in Orkney; and be at the Rendezvous of the faid Fisheries on or before the First Day of October, "and fhall continue fishing until the E"leventh Day of January following, un"lefs they fhall have fooner completed "their Loading of Fish:" Be it therefore enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this present Act, that Part of the faid. Clause above recited fhall be, and the fame is hereby repealed.

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§3. AND be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That every fuch Bufs or At what Place Veffel fhall, from and after the paffing of Time, the this present Act, proceed, respectively are to rendezFishing Veffels manned, furnished, and accoutred, in vous, &c. Manner directed by the before-recited Act, either to Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk; Whitehaven, in the County of Cumberland; Leith, in the County of Edinburgh; Inverness, in the County of Invernefs; or to Braffey Sound, in Shetland; Campbelltown, or Oban, in Argyleshire; Kirkwall, in Orkney; Stranrawer, in the County of Wigtown; or to Stornoway, in the Iland of Lewis, and County of Rofs; and fhall be at the Rendezvous of the faid Fishery there, at any Time between the

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