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ing their nets, and preparing for the Yarmouth fifhery ; of which fifhery 

 the fleet of nets may be of any depth not under five tathoms. 



Ill) That the quantity of fuch white herrings as fhall hereafter be 

 fent by the fociety or their agents to foreign markets, immediately from 

 fea, without being firfl brought into port, fhall be afcertained by the 

 oath of the fociety's iuperintendant of the fifliery. And whereas the 

 place appointed by the firfl adl for the rendezvous of the veffels on the 

 firfl of September is, in many cafes, found inconvenient, it is now 

 enaded, that their vefTels which fhall rendezvous at Kirkwall in the 

 Orkney iflands, on or before the i 2th of September ; and fhall con- 

 tinue to be employed in fifliing among the fholes of herrings, as they 

 move, to the i ith of January (unlefs their loading (hall be fooner com- 

 pleted) fhall, in cafe all the other regulations and conditions in the a6t 

 be complied with, be intitled to the bounties granted therein, as if 

 they had rendezvoufed at Campbeltown at the time required by that 

 aft. No fifhing vefTel employed in the white-herring fifhery fhall be 

 obliged to carry to the later fifhing more than one fleet of nets. 



An act of parliament [26 Geo. //] for permitting the exportation of 

 wool, and woollen or bay yarn, from any port of Ireland to any port in 

 Great Britain, fets forth in its preamble, that the permilfion of export- 

 ing wool, and woollen or bay yarn, only from certain ports in Ireland 

 to certain ports in England, is not of fo great and extenfive an advant- 

 age to the trade of this kingdom as it would be, if all the ports in 

 Great Britain and Ireland were opened for that purpole. It was there- 

 for enaded, that, from the 5th of June 1753, any wool, or woollen or 

 bay yarn, wool-fcls, fliortlings, mortlings, wool-flocks, and vvorfted yarn, 

 may be exported from any port in Ireland to any port in Great Britain. 

 Provided, that cxportations and importations be under the lame reflric- 

 tions and regulations, and in the fame manner in all reipeds as wool or 

 woollen yarn are now by law permitted to be exported from Dublin, 

 and other therein-named ports of Ireland, to BulJeford, and other 

 therein-named ports of England, or any of them. 



In the fame year an a6l of parliament reduced the court of directors 

 of the South-fea company, from three governors and thirty directors to 

 three governors and twenty-one diredors, at the fucceeding general 

 eledtion : and ordained, that no more than fifteen of the diredors, who 

 were eleded at the laft preceding general elecf ion Ihoukl be cholen again 

 into that office at the following eledion. This prudent frugality pro- 

 ceeded from the confideration of their afliento trade being annihilated. 



The French having gained a great fuperiority in the Turkey trade, 

 a petition was prefented to parliament for laying open our Turkey 

 trade entirely. On the other fide, the Turkey comj-any rcprefented, 

 that an open trade to Turkey would but farther decreafe the Britifh 

 trade thither. Tliat the more favourable fituation of the port of Mar- 



