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plement of the crew to the amount of three men for 

 every 50 tons burden was granted ; and the pri- 

 vilege of furnishing the requisite number of men, 

 was extended to the Frith of Clyde and Loch 

 Ryan, as well as the Shetland and Orkney Islands. 

 These men being landed at their respective ports 

 on the return of the ships, and a certificate thereof 

 procured from the officers of the customs at the 

 place, the bounty was to be granted, the same as if 

 the whole crew had accompanied the ship through- 

 out the voyage*. 



In 1795, an act for a limited time was passed, en- 

 couraging inhabitants of the United Provinces (who 

 had before been employed in the whale-fishery, or 

 in certain occupations connected therewith,) to come 

 over and engage in the whale-fisheries from Eng- 

 land, endowing them, imder certain restrictions, and 

 after certain oaths made, with the same advantages 

 as British subjects f. 



The acts for the encouragement of the British 

 whale-fisheries, as amended by the 32d Geo. III. 

 c. 22. were continued in 1798, 1799,1800, and in sub- 

 sequent years, mth little variation to the present 

 time, except as to the following particulars. 



* 34,th Geo. III. c. 22. 



t 35th Geo. III. c. 56. — This act was revived and continued 

 by different subsequent acts, until 25th March 1811, when it 

 expired. 



