56 CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



should not depart on her voyage within forty-eight hours after being 

 required so to do by a customs officer, unless unavoidably detained, 

 should with all the goods on board be forfeited. 



1755, The provisions of the British statute 15 Geo. Ill, cap. 31, 

 (App., p. 544) are important: 



V. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid 

 That it shall and may be lawful for any of His Majesty's subjects 

 residing in Ireland to ship and lade there, and to transport directly 

 from thence to Newfoundland, or to any part of America where the 

 fishery is now, or shall hereafter be, carried on, on board any ship or 

 vessel which may lawfully trade or fish there, any provisions, and 

 also any hooks, lines, netting, or other tools or implements necessary 

 for and used in the fishery by the crews of the ships or vessels carry- 

 ing out the same, and the craft belonging to and employed by such 

 ships or vessels in the said fishery, such provisions, hooks, lines, net- 

 ting, or other tools or implements being the product and manufacture 

 of Great Britain or Ireland; and that it shall and may be lawful for 

 any of His Majesty's subjects residing in the Isle of Man in like 

 manner to export directly from thence any of the articles hereinbefore 

 mentioned for the purpose aforesaid, such articles being the product 

 or manufacture of Great Britain or the said Isle of Man, any law, 

 custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 



VI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the au- 

 thority aforesaid, that the master or other person taking charge of 

 such ship or vessel shall produce to the proper officer of the customs 

 in the colony or plantation where he shall arrive, a certificate, under 



the hand and seal of the collector or other principal officer of 

 65 the customs in the port where he shall have fitted out, that 



oath hath been made before him by the shipper of such pro- 

 visions, hooks, lines, netting, or other tools and implements, that the 

 same are of the product and manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland 

 or the Isle^ of Man, respectively, as the fact may be, and that the 

 several articles before mentioned (except the provisions), specifying 

 the quantities and particulars of each sort, are to be used in the 

 fishery by the crews of the respective ship or vessel earning out 

 the same, and by the craft belonging to and to be employed by such 

 ship or vessel in the said fishery, and for no other use or purpose 

 whatsoever (which oath and certificate such collector or other officer 

 is hereby authorised and required to administer and grant without 

 fee or reward) ; and on failure of producing such certificate, or if 

 any such hooks, lines, netting, tools and implements are used or 

 disposed of for any other purpose, the same, and the ship or vessel 

 having the same on board, shall be liable to be seized and forfeited 

 in the same manner as they would have been subject and liable to 

 if this Act had not been made, anything herein contained to the 

 contrary notwithstanding. 



VII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid 

 that from and after the 1st day of January, 1776, all vessels fitted 

 and cleared out as fishing-ships in pursuance of this Act, or of the 

 before-mentioned Act. made in the tenth and eleventh years of the 

 reign of the late King William III, and which shall be actually 

 employed in the fishery there, or any boat or craft whatsoever em- 

 ployed in carrying coastwise, to be landed or put on board any ships 



