STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 895 



No. 14. 1773: Extract from British Statute, 13 Geo. Ill, Gap. 78. 



An Act to permit the free importation of cod fish, ling, and hake, caught and 

 cured in Chaleur Bay, or any other part of the gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on 

 the coast of Labrador. 



" WHEREAS by an act, made in the second and third years of the 

 reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, (intituled, An Act for the 

 better securing and regulating the duties upon salt), cod fish, ling, 

 or hake, caught and cured at Newfoundland, or Ireland, [Iceland,] 

 are permitted to be imported, brought in, or landed, under certain 

 restrictions and regulations therein particularly mentioned: And 

 whereas it may tend to the increase of the trade and navigation of 

 this kingdom, if the like permission were granted of Importing and 

 bringing in cod fish, ling, or hake, caught and cured in Chaleur Bay, 

 or any other part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on the coast of 

 Labrador;" may it therefore please your Majesty that it may be 

 enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and tem- 

 poral, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by 

 the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this 

 act, it shall and may be lawful to import, bring in, in British-built ves- 

 vessels, navigated according to law, and subject to the rules pre- 

 scribed in an act of the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of 

 535 his late majesty King William the Third, (intituled, An Act to 

 encourage the trade to Newfoundland), and to land in Great 

 Britain, all cod fish, ling, and hake, caught and cured in Chaleur 

 Bay, or any other part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on the coast 

 of Labrador, so as oath be first made before the landing thereof, by 

 the owner or proprietor of such fish, or the master of the vessel 

 bringing the same, before the officer for the duties on salt, in the port 

 or place where such fish shall be imported or brought in (who is 

 hereby required to administer the same without fee or charge) , that 

 all the fish so imported or brought in came from the Gulf of Saint 

 Lawrence, or the coast of Labrador, and were caught and cured there ; 

 and so as the said fish be, at the landing thereof, and before the same 

 be removed from the shore, tendered to the officer of the port or place, 

 for the said duties, to have part of the tail of every such cod fish, 

 ling, or hake, cut off, that no allowance for such fish may be obtained 

 upon exportation; and the said officer is hereby impowered and re- 

 quired to cut off part of the tail of all such fish on the landing 

 thereof : and in case any such fish shall be landed or removed from the 

 shore before the same shall be tendered to the officer, to have part of 

 the tail cut, as aforesaid, all the fish so imported and landed shall 

 be forfeited, and double the value thereof, to be recovered of the 

 importer, pfoprietor, or master of the vessel. 



No. 15. 1774' British Statute; 14 Geo. Ill, Gap. 83. 



An Act for making more Effectual Provision for the Government of the Province 

 of Quebec in North America. 



" Whereas His Majesty, by^ his Royal proclamation, bearing date 

 the seventh day of October, in the third year of his reign, thought 



