886 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



8th That no fishing ship do depart directly for Newfoundland in 

 any year, before the 1st or March. 



9th That the Masters give bond in 100 to His Majesty before the 

 respective Mayors, conditioned not to carry out any persons to New- 

 foundland as aforesaid and to bring back such as they shall carry 

 out unless employed in the carrying fish to foreign markets. 



10th That no master take up any stage already built with less than 

 25 men, and that no fisherman remain in the country after the fish- 

 ing voyage is ended. 



llth That the Admirals, Vice Admirals and Rear Admirals be and 

 are authorised and required to preserve the peace in the harbours as 

 well as on the shore, and to see the rules of the fishery put in exe- 

 cution. 



12th And to secure and bring offenders home to England. 



13th That they yearly publish in their respective harbours on the 

 20th of September these orders, forbidding all seamen to remain in 

 Newfoundland after the last of October. 



14th That they keep journals, and deliver copies unto His Maj- 

 esty's Council for Foreign Plantations. 



And lastly because there is no Court Martial in England at pres- 

 ent, that if any man in Newfoundland shall kill another, or 

 530 steal goods to the value of 40s., he shall be brought prisoner into 

 England, and his crime made known to one of His Majesty's 

 Principal Secretaries of State, to the end order may be given to pun- 

 ish such offender according to Law. 



No. 11. 1736: Extract British Statute, 9 George 77, Cap. 35. 



An Act for indemnifying Persons who have been guilty of Offences against the 

 Laws made for securing the revenues of Customs and Excise, and for en- 

 forcing those Laws for the future. 



" Whereas, notwithstanding the several Laws already made to pre- 

 vent the unlawful importing and clandestine landing and running 

 of prohibited and uncustomed Goods, divers wicked and evil dis- 

 posed persons have of late not only carried on, and do still continue, 

 such pernicious and illegal Practices, in open Defiance of the Laws, 

 to the great Diminution of the public Revenue, and to the manifest 

 Prejudice of the fair Traders, and likewise seduced great numbers 

 of other Persons to join with them in the said wicked practices, 

 whereby the Evil is become so general, that it is necessary that 

 some further provision should be made for effectually preventing the 

 same; yet nevertheless as there may be some Hope that many of the 

 said persons who have been unwarily seduced as aforesaid, may be 

 reclaimed by Grace and Clemency from offending in the like manner 

 for the Future; " Therefore, for the Quiet and Ease of His Majesty's 

 Subjects, who may have been guilty of such Offences, and that such 

 of them as are not yet become incorrigible, being freed from their 

 Fears and Apprehensions, may be induced to leave off their illegal 

 Practices, and to return to their lawful Callings and Occupations, and 

 that such Persons as shall after such an Act of Indulgence, and so 

 publick a warning, presume to commit any of the said Offences, may 



