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on board, shall be forfeited, unless the master, or other person, hav- 

 ing the charge of such ship or vessel, do produce to the commander 

 of any of His Majesty's ships of war, stationed for the protection and 

 superintendence of the British fisheries in America, a certificate, 

 under the hand and seal of the governor, or commander in chief, of 

 any of the colonies or plantations of Quebec, Newfoundland, Saint 

 John, Nova Scotia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mainland, 

 Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, East Flor'nla. 

 West Florida, Bahamas and Bermudas, setting forth, that such ship 

 or vessel, expressing her name, and the name of her master, and de- 

 scribing her built and burthen, hath fitted and cleared out, from 

 some one of the said colonies or plantations, in order to proceed upon 

 the said fishery, and that she actually and bona -fide belongs to and is 

 the whole and entire property of His Majesty's subjects, inhabitants 

 of the said colony or plantation; which certificates such governors, 

 or commanders in chief respectively, are hereby authorised and re- 

 quired to grant. 



" VIII. And to the End that the foregoing Prohibitions, Restric- 

 tions, and Regulations, may be more effectually carried into Execu- 

 tion," it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 it shall and may be lawful to and for all or any of the Commanders 

 of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, stationed and appointed for 

 the Regulation and Protection of the British Fishery upon the Coasts 

 of North America, or to and for the Commanders of any other of his 

 Majesty's Ships or Vessels employed at Sea, and they and every of 

 them are hereby required and enjoined to examine, search, and visit 

 all Ships and Vessels suspected to be carrying on the said Fisheries ; 

 and to seize, arrest and prosecute, in Manner herein after directed, all 

 and every such Ships and Vessels as shall be found to be carrying on 

 the said Fisheries, not belonging to and fitted out from Great Britain 

 or Ireland, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Aldemey, Sark, or 

 Man, which shall not have on Board the Certificate herein before re- 

 quired. 



IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority 

 aforesaid, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be con- 

 strued to extend, to impower any Officer of his Majesty's Ships of 

 War, or of his Majesty's Customs, to seize any Ship or Vessel which 

 shall be fitted and cleared out from any of the said Colonies and 

 Provinces before the first Day of June one thousand seven hundred 

 and seventy-five, for the Whale Fishery only, and which shall be 

 found carrying on such Fishery within tne Limits aforesaid, between 



the said first Day of June and the first day of November 

 540 one thousand seven hundred and seventy -five, and not carrying 



on, nor having on Board any Materials for carrying on, any 

 other Fishery. 



X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 nothing in this Act contained, respecting the Fisheries carried on by 

 his Majesty's Subjects in North America, shall affect, or be construed 

 to affect, any Ship or Vessel, her Guns, Ammunition, Tackle, Apparel, 

 Furniture, or Fish, on Board, being the Property of any of the In- 

 habitants of the Island of Nantucket, employed in the Whale Fishery 

 only, if it shall appear by the Papers on Board, that such Ship or 

 Vessel was fitted and cleared out from thence before the first Day of 

 June one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, or if the Master, 



