ATP. ^'" I.] ABSTRACT OF ACTS OF TARLIAMKN'T. 503 



• No harpooner, Ime-manager, or boai-steerer, who shall be in 

 or belong to any ver^sel in the Greenland fishery trade *, ami 

 whose name (distinguishing the capacity in which he is to 

 serve) shall be inserted in a list, delivered on oath by the 

 owner of the vessel to the Collector of the Customs at the port 

 from which she is to proceed on the fishery, shall be hnpress- 

 ed from the said service ; and such harpooner, boat-stecrer, or 

 line-manager, may, when not employed in the said fishery, 

 sail in the coWiery or coastmg\ trade, upon giving security;]: to 

 the satisfaction of the Commissioners of the Customs, that he 

 or they will proceed in the said vessel to the Greenland seas, 

 or Davis' Straits, on the whale-fishery, the next season ; and 

 ev€ry seaman or common manner wh(» shall be entered to 

 serve on board any vessel intended to proceed on the said 

 fishery, whose name shall be inserted in a list, to be delivered 

 as aforesaid, and who shall have given security to proceed ac- 

 cordingly, shall be exempt from being impressed out of the 

 said service from the 1st of Fe])ruary each year, until the 

 voyage home from thence shall be fully complete and ended, 

 and no longer. (26th G<?o. III. c. 41. § 17.) Provided al- 

 ways, that this act shall not extend to protect from the im- 

 press any greater number of officers than six harpooners, six 

 boat-steerers, and six-line-managers, belonging to each vessel 

 of the burthen of {500 tons, and so in proportion of every 

 vess^ of smaller burthen ; one hai*pooner, one boat-steerer, 



• By act SM Geo. III. c. 22. § 5. harpooners, boat-steerers, line-managers 

 and seamen belonging to vessels not fitted out under the regulations of the acts 

 which would entitle them to the bounty, are protected from the impress, on 

 the same conditions relative to oaths and securities, as those fitted out under 

 the bounty acts, but -wath the proviso, that the act do not extend " to protect 

 from the impress more than 6 harpooners, o line-managers, 5 boat-steerers, 

 and 18 common mariners, belonging to each such vessel of 400 tons burthen, 

 and so on in proportion for any less tonnagy." 



■f In the original act, the word coasting is omitted ; but it was introduced in 

 act 31st Geo. III. c. 43. and has since been perpetuated. 



X For the conditions and nature of this security, vide Appentlix No. IV. 

 art. 4 



