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every such ship or vessel, before she proceeds on such voyage, shall 

 be visited by the proper officer or officers of the Customs belonging 

 to such port, who shall examine into such ship or vessel, and take 

 an account of the tonnage thereof by admeasurement, and shall 

 certif y such his or their visitation, examination, and admeasurement, 

 to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland; and if 

 it appears by the certificate of such officer or officers that she hath on 

 board such a number of men, provisions, boats, fishing lines, and 

 instruments to be used in such fishery as herein after are mentioned ; 

 that she is strongly built, and otherwise a proper ship for such 

 voyage and fishery, and hath on board among her crew a sufficient 

 number of harpooners, steersmen, and line-managers, who have been 

 before employed in such voyages (the names of such persons to be 

 contained in such certificate) ; and if it further appears by the oath 

 of one or more owner or owners, and of the master or Chief Officer 

 of such ship, written at the foot of such certificate, and made before 

 the Collector or Comptroller of such port (who are hereby impowcred 

 and required to administer the same), that it is really and truly 

 their firm purpose and determined resolution, that such ship shall, 

 as soon as licence shall be granted, forthwith proceed, so manned, 

 furnished, and accoutred, on a voyage to the Greenland seas, or 

 Davis 1 ^ Straits, or the seas adjacent, and there in the then approach- 

 ing season to use the utmost endeavours of themselves and their 

 ship's Company to take whales, or other creatures living in the sea, 

 and on no other design or view of profit in such voyage, and to 

 import the whale fins, oil, and blubber thereof, into the Kingdom 

 of Great Britain (naming the port to which it is their intention to 

 return) ; and if the master, after such certificate had, and oath made, 

 do also become bound, with two sufficient securities, unto His 

 Majesty, his heirs and successors, in the penalty of such sum as 

 shall be equal to treble the bounty intended by this Act (which Bond 

 the said Collector, with the approbation of the Comptroller, is hereby 

 required to take, and is to be in force for the term of three years 

 against the master and sureties for the faithful dealings of the" said 

 master and ship's Company in regard to the said ship and voyage) ; 

 then, and in all such cases, it shall and may be lawful for any three 

 or more of the said Commissioners of the Revenues in Ireland for 

 the time being, on receiving such certificates and oaths made, and it 

 being certified to them by the Collector and Comptroller of such 

 port, that sufficient security hath been given as aforesaid, to give 

 and grant, and they are hereby required to give and grant to the 

 master and owners of such ship, full licence and authority to proceed 

 on such voyage as aforesaid. 



" XXII. And to prevent any disputes that may arise whether a 

 ship be properly qualified and duly fitted out for the whale fishery, 

 according to the true intent and meaning of this Act, and intitled to 

 a certificate thereof from the Custom-house Officers," it is hereby 

 enacted. That every ship of the burthen of two hundred tons, de- 

 signed for this fishery, shall and is hereby obliged to have on board 

 forty fishing lines of one hundred and twenty fathom each, forty 

 harpoon irons, four boats with seven men. including a harpooner. a 

 steersman, and a line-manager, to each boat, making in the whole 

 twenty-eight men besides the master and surgeon, with six months' 

 provision at the least for such number of men; and every ship of 



