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APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



AN ABSTRACT OF THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AT PRESENT 

 IN FORCE FOR THE REGULATION OF THE WHALE-FISHERIES 

 OP GREENLAND AND DAVI3' STRAITS. 



Ships fitted out for and retui'ning from the northern whale- 

 fisheries, are entitled to a certain bounty, on the condition of 

 all the requirements of law being fulfilled by the different 

 persons connected therewith ; and, under certain conditions 

 and restrictions, are at liberty to import into Great Britain, 

 &:c. any of the produce of whales, or other creatures caught 

 in the Greenland Seas or Davis"" Straits, not actually free of 

 duty as formerly, but subject only to a small impost ; but in 

 default of compliance with such conditions and restrictions, 

 the produce so imported will be chargeable with the duties 

 imposed on the blubber, oil, fins, &c. of foreign fishing, Avhich 

 are very heavy. 



The substance of the acts of Parliament at present in force 

 relative to, and for the government of, the northern whale- 

 fisheries, is comprised in the following Abstract. 



By the 26th Geo. III. c. 41. (which may be considered as 

 the fundamental act relativetothe Greenland and Davis' Straits 

 whale-fisheries), amended, extended, altered, and continued 

 by vaiious'subsequent acts of" Parliament until the 25th March 

 1820 *, it is enacted. That every British built vessel, owned 



• 55th Geo. III. c. 39. § 1. expected to I c again cxtciKied. 



