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every such ship, provided such admeasurement be not less 

 than 150 tons.— 26th Geo. III. c. 41. § 7. 



No person shall be entitled to receive the bounty for any 

 sliip which shall proceed upon the said whale-fishery, from any 

 port of Great Britain, or the islands of Guernsey, &c. unless 

 such ship shall sail from the port where she shall be surveyed 

 and cleared, directly on her intended fishery, on or before the 

 10th day of April in each year, and shall continue with her 

 crew in the Greenland seas, or Davis' Straits, or the adjacent 

 seas, diligently endeavouring to catch whales, or other crea^- 

 tures living in those seas, and shall not depart from thence 

 before the 10th day of August next following *, unless such 

 ship, if she be of the burthen of 300 tons, shall be laden with 

 SO tons of oil, or blubber in proportion thereto, the blubber 

 to be rated, with respect to the oil, as three to two, and one 

 ton and a half of whale-fins ; or if she be of greater or less 

 burthen, with a quantity of oil or blubber, and whale-fins, in 

 like pi'oportion to the tonnage for which every such ship shall 

 be entitled to the bounty, being the produce of one or more 

 whale or whales, caught by the crew thereof, or with the as- 

 sistance of the crew of some other lic&nsed ship, before that 

 time, or shall be forced by some unavoidable accident or ne- 

 cessity, to depart sooner from those seas ; which accident or 

 necessity shall be verified on the oaths of the master and mate 

 belonging to such ship, upon her return from the said fishery, 

 before the Collector and another principal officer of the Cus- 

 toms, at the port where she shall arrive, who shall transmit 

 the same, together with the schedule, licence, and other do- 

 cuments, to the Commissioners of the Customs for that port 

 of Great Britain where such ship shall arrive. — 26th Geo. III. 

 c. 41. § 4. 



The owners of any vessel sailing on the whale-fishery of 

 Greenland or Davis' Straits from Great Britain, or the islands 

 of Guernsey, &c. which shall proceed from the port where 

 she was surveyed and cleared out, directly on her intended 



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• See the next follov.ing paragraph, where this limit is modified. 



