882 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASK 



and the inhabitants there, or any by-boat keeper, for or concerning 

 the right and property of fishing rooms, stages, flakes, or any other 

 building or conveniency for fishing or curing of fish, in the several 

 harbours or coves, the said differences, disputes and controversies, 

 shall be judged and determined by the fishing admirals, in the sev- 

 eral harbours and coves : and in case any of the said masters of fish- 

 ing ships, by-boat keepers or inhabitants, shall think themselves 

 aggrieved by such judgment or determination, and shall appeal to 

 the commanders of any of His Majesty's ships of war, appointed as 

 convoys for Newfoundland, the said commander is hereby authorised 

 and impowered to determine the same, pursuant to the regulation in 

 this Act. 



XVI. And to the end that the inhabitants, fishermen, seamen, and 

 all and every other person and persons residing or being at New- 

 foundland, or any me said islands, or other places, may with all 

 devotion join in their solemn prayers and addresses to Almighty God, 

 for the obtaining of His blessing upon their persons and endeavours; 

 Be it hereby enacted, That all and every the inhabitants of New- 

 foundland, or the said islands or places adjacent near thereto, shall 

 strictly and decently observe every Lord's Day, commonly called Sun- 

 day; and that none of the said inhabitants (who keep any tavern, 

 alehouse, or other public house for entertainment) shall entertain or 

 sell, vend, utter or dispose of to any fisherman, seaman or other per- 

 son whatsoever, upon any Lord's Day or Sunday, any wine, beer, ale, 

 cider, strong waters or tobacco, or any other liquor or liquors what- 

 soever. 



" XVII. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the eighth 

 and ninth years of His Majesty's reign, intituled. An Act for granting 

 to His Majesty a further subsidy of tonnage and poundage upon mer- 

 chandises imported, for the term of two years and three quarters, and 

 an additional land tax for one year, for carrying on the war against 

 France ; and by another Act made in the ninth and tenth years of His 

 Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for granting to His Majesty a 

 further subsidy of tonnage and poundage, towards the raising a 

 yearly sum of seven hundred thousand pounds, for the service of His 

 Majesty's household, and other uses therein mentioned, during His 

 Majesty's life, an additional duty of twelve pence on every twenty 

 shillings value of all goods and merchandises imported (all manner 

 of fish English taken excepted) is granted to His Majesty, his heirs 

 and successors ; and whereas some doubt hath arisen, whether oil, blub- 

 ber, and fins, taken and imported by the company of merchants of 

 London trading to Greenland, are not liable to the said duty ; " be it 

 therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all whalefins. oil, 

 and blubber, taken and imported by the ships of the company of mer- 

 chants of London trading to Greenland, were not nor are intended to 

 be charged or made liable to the duty of twelve pence for every twenty 

 shillings value of goods imported, charged in the aforesaid Acts, but 

 that the whalefins, oil, and blubber, taken and imported as aforesaid, 

 and also all whalefins, oil, and blubber of English fishing, taken in 

 the seas of Newfoundland, or any of the seas belonging to any of His 

 Majesty's plantations or colonies,, and imported into this kingdom by 

 any of His Majesty's subjects in English shipping, were, and are 

 hereby declared to be free of the said duties, as all fish of English 

 taking; the aforesaid Acts, or anv thing therein contained to the 

 contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 



