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with three-fourths of His Majesty's subjects of Great Britain, Ireland. 

 or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, besides the master, and 

 shall be fitted and cleared out from some port in Great Britain or 

 Ireland, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, after the first 

 day of January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and 

 after that day in each succeeding year, and shall take and kill one 

 whale at least in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on the coasts of 

 Labrador, Newfoundland, or in any seas to the southward of the 

 Greenland seas and Davis's Straits, and shall return within the same 

 3'ear to some port in England with the oil of such whale or whales 

 so taken as aforesaid; and on the master and mate of such vessel, 

 and two of the mariners belonging to her, making oath before the 

 collector and comptroller of the Customs at the port of her arrival 

 (which oath they are hereby authorised and required to administer), 

 that such oil is the produce of one or more whale or whales taken 

 and killed by the crew then belonging to such vessel, mentioning 

 the time when she departed from Great Britain, Ireland, or the 

 Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, and from what port, and the 

 time and place where such whale or whales was or were taken and 

 killed, such oil may be landed without payment of any duty what- 

 soever ; and the collector and comptroller of such port shall thereupon 

 forthwith transmit such oath to the commissioners of His Majesty's 

 Customs at London, any four or more of whom are hereby author- 

 ised and required to order the receiver general of His Majesty's Cus- 

 toms to pay, out of any money in his hands arising by any duties 

 under their management, for the vessel which shall so arrive in each 

 year with the greatest quantity of oil taken as aforesaid, five hun- 

 dred Pounds; for the vessel which shall in like manner arrive in 

 the same year with the next greatest quantity of oil so taken as 

 aforesaid, four hundred Pounds; for the vessel which shall in like 

 manner arrive in the same year with the next greatest quantity of 

 oil so taken as aforesaid, three hundred Pounds ; for the vessel which 

 shall in like manner arrive in the same year with the next greatest 

 quantity of oil so taken as aforesaid, two hundred Pounds; and for 

 the vessel which shall so arrive in the same year with the next great- 

 est quantity of oil so taken as aforesaid, one hundred Pounds; the 

 said oil so to be imported by each of the said vessels being the prod- 

 uce of one whale at the least ; which said several and respective boun- 

 ties shall be paid by such receiver general, within two months after 

 the expiration of each year in which such vessel shall arrive, to the 

 owner or owners of such vessels so entitled thereto, or their assigns 

 duly authorised to demand the same. 



" IV. And in order to obviate any doubts that have arisen, or may 

 arise, to whom the privilege or right of drying fish on the Chores of 

 Newfoundland does or shall belong, under the before mentioned act, 

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

 the Third, which right or privilege has hitherto only been enjoyed 

 by His Majesty's subjects of Great Britain, and the other British 

 dominions in Europe;" be it enacted and declared by the authority 

 aforesaid, that the said right and privilege shall not be held and 

 enjoyed by any of His Majesty's subjects arriving at Newfoundland 

 from any other country except from Great Britain^ or one of the 

 British dominions in Europe. 



