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intentions as to the design of the voyage, is signed by the 

 collector and comptroller of the port, and completes the 

 "certificate of a ship's being properly fitted for the whale- 

 fishery." 



2. Ozcne?-''s and Master's Oath. — The nature of these affi- 

 davits is very clearly defined in act 26th Geo. III. c. 41. § 1. 

 (See third paragraph of Appendix, N° I.) 



3. Master's Bond. — Every master of a whale-ship, before 

 licence can be granted for the ship to proceed on her voyage, 

 must be bound, along with two sufficient securities, of whom 

 the owner v/ho clears the ship is generally one, in the sum of 

 L. 900, or treble the bounty, for the faithful dealings of him- 

 self and ship"'s company, in regard to the said ship and voy- 

 age. 



This bond, after reciting sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, & 

 10, of act 26th Geo. III. c. 41, &c. proceeds to the conditions 

 of the obligation, which are such, " that if the said ship F, 

 now owned, manned, and navigated, and duly qualified for 

 the said fishery, in such manner as is, by the said act, direc- 

 ted and required, shall so continue during the whole voyage ; 

 and if all the whale-fins, oil and blubber, which shall be real- 

 ly and truly caught and taken in the said seas, by the crew of 

 such ship only, or with the assistance of the crew of any other 

 licensed ship, before that time, shall be imported in the said 

 ship into some port of Great Britain ; and if the said master, 

 and his ship's company, do and shall in all respects whatso- 

 ever, conform themselves to the said act, and deal faithfully 

 in the execution thereof, then this obligation to be void, or 

 else to remain and be in full force, effect, and virtue. 



Sealed and delivered (being (Signed by the master 



first legally stamped) in and each security.) 



the presence of 



(Collector) 

 (Comptroller) 



4. Protection Bonds. — In time of war, the officers of 

 whale-fishing ships are protected, while, on coasting- voyages, 



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