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to the said island with another cargo of fish, shall be intitled to forty- 

 pounds each ; and one hundred vessels which shall so arrive the next 

 in order of time, on or before the said fifteenth day of July in each 

 year, at the said island, with a like cargo, and shall proceed again 

 to the said banks, and return from thence in the manner herein- 

 before mentioned, shall be intitled to twenty pounds each; and 

 one hundred other vessels which shall so arrive the next in 

 order of time, on or before the said fifteenth day of July in 

 each year, at the said island, with a like cargo, and shall proceed 

 again" to the said banks, and return from thence in the manner 

 hereinbefore mentioned, shall be intitled to ten pounds each, upon 

 the master or owner of such vessel's producing to the collector of 

 his Majesty's customs at the port in Great Britain from whence 

 such vessel was cleared out a certificate, under the hand and seal of 

 the governor of Newfoundland, that the master of such vessel had 

 produced to him a certificate under the hands of the collector and 

 comptroller of the customs at the port from whence such vessel was 

 cleared out, testifying that such vessel was duly qualified to proceed 

 on such fishery, in pursuance of the before mentioned act, made in 

 the tenth and eleventh years of King William the third; and that it 

 has been made appear to his satisfaction, by a certificate under the 

 hand and seal of the naval officer of the district in Newfoundland 

 where such fish was landed, or where there is no naval officer, under 

 the hand and seal of the commander of any of his Majesty's ships 

 stationed there, or of such officer as the governor shall approve, 

 specifying the time of such vessel's arrival, in manner before directed, 

 that such vessel was intitled by the priority and time of her arrival 

 to one or other of the bounties therein mentioned, as the fact may 

 be; and that the master and mate of such vessel had made oath 

 before such naval or other officer as aforesaid, that the number of 

 fish taken on the first trip amounted to ten thousand at least by tale, 

 that he had made two trips at least, and that all the fish on both trips 

 were catched on the banks of Newfoundland; which certificate and 

 oath the said governor and naval or other officer as aforesaid are 

 hereby Empowered and required to grant and administer to the master 

 and mate of such vessel without fee or reward; and upon delivering 

 up the said certificate to such collector the respective bounties therein 

 iiicni ioned shall be paid by such collector out of any money remaining 

 in In- hands arising by the duties of customs or other subsidies upon 

 foreign goods imported into this kingdom; and in case such collector 

 shall not have sufficient 1 money in his hands to pay the said bounties, 

 he shall certify the same to the commissioners of his Majesty's cus- 

 tom-, in England or Scotland respectively, who are hereby authorized 

 and required to order the same to he paid by the receiver general of 

 the customs, out of any money in his hands arising by any of the duties 

 and revenues under their management respectively. 



II. And he it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for 

 the better accomodation of the persons he longing t<> vessels employed 



in the. Newfoundland fishery, it shall and may he, lawful for the 

 masters and crews belonging to any vessels fitted out and employed 

 in that li liery in pursuance of (his or any other act, to occupy and 

 use, for the purpose of curing, salting, drying and husbanding their 

 fish, any \acaiit or void space whatever on uny part of Newfound- 



