510 A. D. 1771. 



of nets, fait, and other fifhing ftorcs, proportioned to the tunnage. Every' 

 ▼eflel intended for the fummer filhcry muft be at the ftation or rendez- 

 vous on or before the 22^ of June, and mnft not begin to fifti before 

 the 24''' ; after which they are to continue fifhing till the 12''' of Odo- 

 ber, unlefs they fhall have completed their loading fooner. Thofe in- 

 tended for the winter fifhery mufi: be at the rendezvous on or before 

 the I' of Oclober, and continue fifliing till the 1 1"" of January, unlefs 

 completely loaded fooner. The Rations appointed for the veflels to af- 

 femble at previous to the commencement of the fifhery, and for their 

 return from it, were Yarmouth in Norfolk, Leith, Invernefs, BrafTey 

 found, Kirkwall, Oban, Campbelltown, and Whitehaven : and the boun- 

 ty in Scotland was no longer to be dependent on the produce of a par- 

 ticular fund, but to be pundually paid from the whole revenue of the 

 kingdom, as it is in England. [11 Geo. JIJ, c. 31.] 



An a<S for the keeping and carriage of gun-powder, among other pre- 

 cautions, direds, that, for the fecurity of the great number of vefTels 

 lying in the River Thames, no veffel fliall have onboard above 25 pounds 

 of gun-powder, while fhe is above Blackwall. [11 Geo. Ill, c. ^^.^ 



The exportation of live cattle and hogs, and alfo of the flefh of thofe 

 animals, was prohibited, except to Gibralter, Minorca, and fuch of the 

 colonies as have been ufually fupplied with provifions from Great Bri- 

 tain. [11 Geo. Ill, c. 37.] 



For the encouragement of the whale fifhery, the importation of the 

 fins, oil, and blubber, of whales, and the oil, Ikins, and other produce 

 of feals, and other creatures caught in the Greenland feas, by velfels, of 

 which the captain, and at leafl one third of the men, are Britifh, was 

 permitted free of any duty. Alfo from 25''' December 1771, every 

 Britifh fliip, of ftrength fuflicient to encounter the Greenland feas, and 

 manned and provided in a manner proper for the whale fifhery, that 

 proceeds in the proper feafon to profecute that fifhery in the Greenland 

 feas, Davis's flraits, or the adjacent feas, and returns to the port whence 

 flie failed, is entitled to a bounty oi forty JJnllings a tun on every voyage 

 iox five years, to thirty Jhillings iov 2i kconA. term o^ five years, and to 

 nvcnty Jhillings for a third term of five years : the whole bounties grant- 

 ed by this aft expiring on the 25''' of December 1786 : every veflel of 

 200 tuns is obliged to carry /oz/r boats and 30 men, including the mafler 

 ;ind furgeon ; and every fhip from 200 to 400 tuns to carry one boat and 

 6 men for every 50 tuns above 200 % and every fhip to have one appren- 

 tice for every 50 tuns of her burthen, who is to be reckoned part of 

 her compliment of men. 



As doubts had arifen, whether it was lawful to infure the bounty, 

 which the veffel is entitled to in the event of her arrival, it was declared 

 lawful to infure fuch bounty, and to recover it from the underwriters, 

 if the veffel be lofl. 



