S04i ABSTRACT OF ACTS OF PAltLIAMENT. [aPP. N° I. 



and one line-manager less for every 50 tons smaller burthen*. 

 — 42d Geo. III. c. 22. § 2. 



The Greenland Seas and Davis' Straits, and seas adjacent, 

 Avithin the intent and meaning of the bounty acts, shall be 

 deemed and taken to extend to the latitude of fifty-nine de- 

 grees thirty minutes north, and no farther. — 26th Geo. III. 

 c. 41. § 18. 



No wliale-boat belonging to any whale-fishing ship employ- 

 ed in the above fishery or in the seas to the south thereof, 

 shall be liable to seizure on account of her built, dimensions, 

 or construction ; but on the return of such ship from the fish- 

 ery every season, such boat shall be laid up by the owner or 

 owners thereof in such place or places as shall be approved 

 of by the principal officer of the Customs of the port at 

 which such ship shall arrive, and shall not be employed or 

 made use of in any way whatever, but in the said fisheries. 

 — 32d Geo. III. c. 22. § 6. 



If the master of any vessel, or any other person, to whom 

 any apprentice shall be indentured, pursuant to act 26th 

 Geo. III. c. 41. shall suffer him to leave his service (ex- 

 cept as herein after provided) before the end of the term for 

 which he is bound, such master, or other person, shall forfeit, 

 for each offence, fifty pounds, to be recovered by action of 

 debt, &c. in any of his Majesty's courts of record. [29th Geo. 

 III. c. 53. § 5.] Not to extend to any case where an ap- 

 prentice is legally discharged before a INIagistrate, or turned 

 over from one person to another concerned in the said fisheries, 

 to serve the remainder of his time in the said fisheries, pursu- 

 ant to the said act. — 29th Geo. III. c. 53. § 6. 



Spermaceti-oil, head-matter, train-oil, and all other fish-oil, 

 blubber, and whale-fins, of British fishing, imported at Lon- 



■ As neither this nor the fundamental act, (26th Geo. III.), limits the number 

 of seamen to be protected during the voyage, it has become a practice with the 

 Officers of Customs to assume the number of common seamen required by law 

 to be on board each ship, (26th Geo. IIF. c. 41 . § 21.), as the amount to be pro- 

 tected ; tliat is, 16 men in a ship of 300 tons or upwards, and two men less 

 for every fifty tons smaller burthen. 



