914 APPENDIX TO BKITISH CASE. 



V. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 That it shall and may be lawful for any of His Majesty's subjects 

 residing in Ireland to ship and lade there, and to transport dirertly 

 from thence to Newfoundland, or in any part of America where the 

 fishery is now or shall hereafter be carried on, on board any ship 

 or vessel which may lawfully trade or fish there, any provisions, 

 and also any hooks, lines, netting, or other tools or implements nec- 

 essary for and used in the fishery by the crews of the ships or ves- 

 sels carrying out the same, and the craft belonging to and employed 

 by such ships or vessels in the said fishery, such provisions, hooks, 

 lines, netting, or other tools or implements, being the product and 

 manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland; and that it shall and may 

 be lawful for any of His Majesty's subjects residing in the Isle of 

 Man, in like manner to export directly from thence any of the arti- 

 cles herein before mentioned for the purpose aforesaid, such 



545 articles being the product or manufacture of Great Britain, 

 or the said Isle of Man, any law, custom, or usage, to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding. 



VI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the au- 

 thority aforesaid, That the master or other person taking charge of 

 such ship or vessel shall produce to the proper officer of the cus- 

 toms in the colony or plantation where he shall arrive, a certificate, 

 under the hand and seal of the collector or other principal officer of 

 the customs in the port where he shall have fitted out. that oath 

 hath been made before him by the shipper of such provisions, hooks, 

 lines, netting, or other tools and implements, that the same are of 

 the product and manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or the 

 Isle of Man respectively, as the fact may be, and that the several 

 articles before mentioned (except the provisions), specifying the 

 quantities and particulars of each sort, are to be used in the fishery 

 by the crews of the respective ship or vessel carrying out the same, 

 and by the craft belonging to and to be employed by such ship or 

 vessel in the said fishery, and for no other use or purpose whatso- 

 ever (which oath and certificate such collector or other officer is 

 hereby authorised and required to administer and grant without 

 fee or reward) ; and on failure of producing such certificate, or if 

 any such hooks, lines, netting, tools and implements, are used or 

 disposed of for any other purpose, the same, and the ship or vessel 

 having the same on board, shall be liable to be seized and forfeited in 

 the same manner as they would have been subject and liable to if 

 this act had not been made, anything herein contained to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding. 



VII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 That from and after the first day of January, one thousand seven 

 hundred and seventy-six, all vessels fitted and cleared out as fishing 

 ships in pursuance of this Act, or of the before-mentioned Act. made 

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

 the Third, and which shall be actually employed in the fishery there, 

 or any boat or craft whatsoever employee! in carrying coastwise, to 

 be landed or put on board any ships or vessels, any fish, oil, salt pro- 

 visions, or other necessaries, for the use and purpose of that fishery, 

 shall not be liable to any restraint or regulation with respect to days 

 or hours of working, nor to make any entry at the customhouse at 

 Newfoundland, except a report to be made by the master on his first 



