STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 911 



Great Britain, and of His Majesty's dominions before mentioned, at 

 the end of every fishing season : Now, in order to promote these 

 great and important purposes, and with a view, in the first place, to 

 induce His Majesty's subjects to proceed early from the ports of 

 Great Britain to the banks of Newfoundland, and thereby to prose- 

 cute the fishery on the said banks to the greatest advantage, may it 

 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 temporal, and Commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from 

 and after the first Day of January, one thousand seven hundred and 

 seventy-six, the respective bounties herein after mentioned shall be 

 paid and allowed annually, for eleven years, for a certain number of 

 ships or vessels employed in the British fishery on the banks of New- 

 foundland, under the limitations and restrictions herein after ex- 

 pressed ; that is to say, such vessels shall appear by their register to be 

 British built, and owned by his Majesty's subjects residing in Great 

 Britain or Ireland, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man; and 

 be of the burthen of fifty tons or upwards, and navigated with not 

 less than fifteen men each, three-fourths of whom, besides the master, 

 shall be His Majesty's subjects; and in other respects qualified, and 

 subject to the same rules and restrictions, as are described by an Act, 

 made in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of the late King 

 William the Third (intituled, an Act to encourage the trade to New- 

 foundland) ; and shall be fitted and cleared out from some port in 

 Great Britain after the said first Day of January, one thousand 

 seven hundred and seventy-six, and after that day in each succeeding 

 year, and shall proceed to the banks of Newfoundland,' and having 

 catched a cargo of fish upon those banks, consisting of not less than 

 ten thousand fish by tale, shall land the same at one of the ports on 

 the southern or eastern side of the Island of Newfoundland, between 

 Cape Ray and Cape de Grat, on or before the fifteenth Day of July 

 in each year; and shall make one more trip at least to the said banks, 

 and return with another cargo of fish catched there to the same port ; 

 in which case, the twenty-five vessels first arriving at the said Island 

 of Newfoundland from the banks thereof, with a cargo of fish catched 

 there, consisting of ten thousand fish by tale at the least, and after 

 landing the same at one of the ports within the limits before men- 

 tioned in Newfoundland, shall proceed again to the said banks, and 

 return to the said island with another cargo of fish, shall be intitled 

 to forty Pounds each; and one hundred vessels which shall so arrive 

 the next in order of time, on or before the said fifteenth Day of July 

 in each year, at the said island, with a like cargo, and shall proceed 

 again to the said banks, and return from thence in the manner herein 

 before mentioned, shall be intitled to twenty Pounds each; and one 

 hundred other vessels which shall so arrive the next in order of time, 

 on or before the said fifteenth Day of July in each year, at the said 

 island, with a like cargo, and shall proceed again to the said banks, 

 and return from thence in the manner herein before mentioned, shall 

 be intitled to ten Pounds each, upon the master or owner of such 

 vessels producing to the collector of His Majesty's customs at the port 

 in Great Britain from whence such vessel was cleared out. a certificate, 

 under the hand and seal of the governor of Newfoundland, that the 

 master of such vessel had produced to him a certificate under the 



