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that they, or either of them, will not permit or fuffer faid veflel to 

 be employed in any other manner whatever during the fifliing 

 feafon of the year 1 7 

 ^ Then follows a claufe refpe&ing fait, and the duty thereon. 



And that faid veflel has on board one compleat fuit of fails 

 made of Irifh fail -cloth, together with a copy of this act ; and 

 that a journal (hall be kept of all their proceedings, and an account 

 cf the quantities of fifli which (hall be taken on each voyage. 



Then follows the oa.th of the furveyor or infpeclor ot the bufles 

 on their arrival at the fifliing grounds, and the vouchers to be 

 produced previous to their receiving the bounty ; particularly that 

 Inch bufs was employed in the laid fifliery during three months, 

 between the firft day of May and the firft day ot Auguft on the 

 fummer fishery, or between the fir ft day of November and the firft 

 day of February on the winter fifhery, except in cafes of diftrefs 

 of weather, or having complcated her cargo^ of which the entry 

 of the fifti at the port where me (hall arrive, (hall be fufficient 

 evidence ; then all fuch requifites being fully performed, (hall 

 entitle the owner or owners to the faid bounty. 



And whereas the fifheries on the coaft of the county of Donegal 

 are carried on only in the late feafon of November, December, 

 and January, by boats, when the fifli reibrt to the leveral bays, 

 inlets and creeks : And whereas there is great realbn to iuppoie 

 that the flioals of herrings frequent the coafts much earlier, but 

 from the want of veflels of a certain fize to protect the boats in 

 caie of tempeituous weather, the fifliei men are afraid to venture 

 from under the (helter of the headlands : And whereas the encou- 

 raging of (hip-building on that part of the coart immediately con- 

 tiguous to the feat of the fifliery, would tend greatly to the im- 

 provement of the fame. 



Be it enabled, that a bounty of 3!. per ton (hall be paid out of 

 his niajefty's revenues, to Inch perion or perfons, or their agents, 

 as (hall hereafter buila within the dirtricl of any port in the county 

 of Donegal, any Ip.ufs or decked veflel fit for tifhing in deep 

 water, not under the burden of 20 tons, nor upwards of 60 tons 

 burden, provided that fuch bufs or veflel (hall be launched pre- 

 vious to the 311!; day of December 1788; and provided always 

 that fuch bufs or veflel, which Ihall be built upon fuch bounty 

 aforefaid, (hall not be entitled to receive any other bounty granted 

 by this acl, or for three years next following the time at which 

 inch veflel or buls (hall be launched. And provided alfo that the 

 perfon or perfons claiming fuch bounty Ihall become bound, with 

 two fufficient fureties, that the faid veflel for which he fliall receive 

 fuch bounty fliall be employed in the fiflieries on the coaft of this 

 kingdom during three months in each of the three years next 

 following the time at which fuch buls or veflel ihall be launched. 



No bounty fliall be paid for or in refped of any veflel, the 

 whole of which veflel fliall not be made appear to the fatisfa&ion 

 of the commiflioners, to have been for fix months before failing 

 on herfifliing voyage, really and bonafJ* the property of one or 



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