360 BRITISH PREMIUMS AND BOUNTIES. 



No allowance to be paid on fifh badly cured, or 

 unmerchantable. Fifh fraudulently re-landed in 

 Great-Britain, and re-imported, is forfeited, and 

 double the value to be recovered of the importer 

 or proprietor. 

 No fee to be taken for a debenture or certificate, or 



for payment of the money. 



Any officer refuting or neglecting to pay the 



money i or give a certificate, as above, forfeits 



double the fum to the party aggrieved. 



Thefe encouragements, great as they may feem, 



are found in the experiment to be inadequate to the 



heavy expences attending every Britifh fifbery ; be- 



fides the accidents to which the adventurers are ex- 



pqfed from war," dorms, or unfavourable feafons ; 



alfo the great difproportion in fhip-building, outfit, 



mens wages, provifions, calks, &c. between the 



Britifti and foreign expenditures in thefe branches. 



This will appear more forcibly in the following ab- 



flracT: from what hath been faid relative to the 



fifheries. 



be held as evidence of the quantity of oil (the number of gallons 

 being fpecified) made from the fun or fail -fifh taken by each 

 boat. 



The Truftees are likewife to give two premiums of lol. and 

 $1. to the matters of the competing veifels, who {hall keep the 

 moil: accurate journals of their procedure, and give the moil fa* 

 tisfadory account of any new fiihing-ground, or mall point out 

 diftinctly any practicable improvement which can be made upon 

 the preient mode of profecuting the fifhery. But they rcferve 

 to themfelves a power of with-holding either or both of the pre- 

 miums, in cafe it mail appear to them that none of the journals 

 have fufficient merit in thefe refpedls. 



By order of the Board, 



ROBr. ARBUTHNOT, Sec. 



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