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ting, than one of 100 tons. The full number of men, 
as above stated, are not deemed until the ar- 
rival of the buss at the rendezvous of Sound. 
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ed such to the commissioners of Excise in England or Fisheries. 
Scotland, who are to. give an order to their cashier or “~V~ 
collector nearest the port where the buss discharged her 
cargo, who is to pay the sum mentioned in the deben- 
ture on mane. mi , , y 
Mariners employed in the deep sea fishery are pro- 
tected from being impressed during the voyage, id 
until after the buss has returned to the.port of her-dise 
Owners of busses entitled to the tonnage bounty, to 
i¢ pay the crew 2s. perbarreb on the herrings taken and* 
» cured by them. 
An additional bounty of £1 per ton is allowed for~ 
Herring 
fishery, 
the first 30 busses» fitted out for and employed in the — 
herring fishery, and entitled to the bounty of £3 per 
ton.. 
Then follow regulations for cleaning out vessels, - 
(other than busses on “the ra apenas with salt, 
&c. for the British herring fishery, what herrings shall” 
be entitled to the 
are prohibited from being 
be: cured and ed in half barrels, 
may 
' containing 16 gallons English wine measure, and two - 
of these being accounted equal to one, 2s. bounty shall 
be paid on them. Y. 
or encouraging 
Scotland, to provide larger boats than are now used in 
' the herring fishery, and to take herrings at tml 
distance from shore than can be done in’ small boats, 
it is enacted, that after the 1st of June 1809, the com- 
bounty of 2s. and certain herrings - 
ing the inhabitants on the sea-coasts of © 
missioners are authorised. to allow premiums or boun= — 
ties, not exceeding the sum of three thousand pounds - 
yearly; to persons who shall employ boats of a burthen 
* not less than fifteen tons by admeasurement, in the tak- 
ing herrings on the coast of Scotland, and who shall : 
cure. and pack them according:to the rules and regula- - 
This, bounty also to be ~ 
tions of the commissioners. 
paid by the commissioners of Excise in Scotland.” 
When the foregoing act expired, which was at the 
close of the last session of parliament, (1814,). an in- 
terim one took place. This was a temporary expedient, 
until a bill should be brought in this season, after the 
Easter recess, to obtain an act for permanently regu- 
lating this fishery: This act,.as we are informed, is to - 
be in substance, nearly the same as that of which we-- 
have given an abstract, and both modelled (with the 
ion of the bounties) after a placart or ordinance 
ed at the Hague and Delft, by the states of © 
olland and West Friesland, in the prime and most. 
successful state of their fisheries, concerning the catch+ 
ing, ee curing, packing, heightening and laying of | 
e. 
, with the peculiar pleasant flavour of © 
The fine si 
the Dutch herrings, owing to their excellent mode of \: 
curing, caused them to be more esteemed throughout 
Europe, than.either those of the English or Scotch. 
However, it is to be hoped since the value of this 
fishery seems now to be oh ew appreciated and at- 
tended to, that our pickled herrings will be equal, if 
not superior,-to the best of the Dutch; or those of Gota - 
tenbu 
The first idea of preserving herrings by pickling, is 
said. to have been saggulted about ae year 1890, and 
it was the cause of that fishery becoming afterwards so 
valuable an article of commerce. « 
William Bruckfield, or Beukelings, a native of Biero~ 
liet, a tewn of Dutch Flanders, who lived about that 
time, has got the merit of being the first discoverer of 
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