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said islands for the curing, salting, drying, and husbanding of their 

 fish, and for making of oil, and to cut down woods and trees there 

 for building and making or repairing of stages, ship-rooms, train- 

 vats, hurdles, ships, boats, and other necessaries for themselves and 

 their servants, seamen, and fishermen, and all other things which 

 may be useful or advantageous to their fishing trade, as fully and 

 freely as at any time heretofore hath been used or enjoyed there by 

 any of the subjects of His Majesty's Royal predecessors, without any 

 hindrance, interruption, denial or disturbance of or from any person 

 or persons whatsoever; and that no alien or stranger whatsoever 

 (not residing within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, 

 or town of Berwick upon Tweed} shall at any time hereafter take 

 any bait, or use any sort of trade or fishing whatsoever in Newfound- 

 land, or in any of the said islands or places abovementioned. 



II. And for the preserving the said harbours from all annoyances ; 

 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after 

 the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred, now next 

 coming, no ballast, prest stones, or anything else hurtful to or annoy- 

 ing any of the harbours there, shall be thrown out of any ship or 

 otherwise, by any person or persons whatsoever, to the prejudice of 

 any of the said harbours, but that all such ballast and other things 

 shall be carried on shore, and be laid where they may do no annoy- 

 ance. 



III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no 

 person or persons whatsoever shall (at his departure out of the said 

 country, or at any other time) destroy, deface, or do any detriment 

 to any such stage or cook-room ; or to the flakes, spikes, nails, or any 

 other thing whatsoever thereto belonging, as he or they shall fall 

 into at his or their coming into the said country, but that he or they 

 shall (during his or their stay there) content him and themselves 

 with such stage or stages only as are needful for him or them, and 

 shall also (at his or their departure thence) leave all such his or 

 their stage or stages, without doing or causing to be done any wilful 

 damage to any of them ; and that for the repairing of such stage or 

 stages as he or they shall so take, during his or their abode there, the 

 same shall be done with timber fetcht out of the woods there, and 

 not by the ruining, breaking down, demolishing, prejudicing, or any 

 wise injuring the stage or stages of any other person or persons 

 whatsoever. 



IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 (according to the ancient custom there used) every such fishing ship 

 from England, Wales, or Berwick, or such- fishermen as shall, from 

 and after the said twenty-fifth day of March, first enter any harbour 

 or creek in Newfoundland, in behalf of his ship, shall be admiral of 

 the said harbour or creek during that fishing season, and for that 

 time shall reserve to himself only so much beach or flakes, or both, 

 as are needful for the number of such boats as he shall there use, 

 with an overplus only for the use of one boat more than he needs. 

 as a privilege for his first coming thither; and that the master of 

 every of such second fishing ship, as shall enter any such harbour or 

 creek, shall be vice admiral of such harbour or creek during that fish- 

 ing season ; and that the master of every such fishing ship next com- 

 ing, as shall enter any such harbour or creek, shall be rear admiral 

 of such harbour or creek during that fishing season; and that the 



