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XXIV. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the 

 authority aforesaid, That no person or persons shall be allowed or 

 intitled to receive the bounty herein before granted, for any ship 

 which shall proceed on the said fishery after the twenty-fifth day of 

 December one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, unless such 

 ship shall sail from the port where she shall be surveyed, and cleared 

 directly on her intended fishery, on or before the tenth day of April 

 in each and every year, and shall continue with her crew in the 

 Greenland seas, or Davis's Straits, or the adjacent seas, diligently 

 endeavouring to catch whales, or other creatures living in those seas, 

 and shall not depart from thence before the tenth day of August 

 then following, unless such ship shall be laden with the blubber and 

 fins of one whale, caught by the crew thereof, or with the assistance 

 of the crew of some other licenced ship, before that time, or shall 

 be forced by some unavoidable accident or necessity to depart sooner 

 from those seas; which accident or necessity shall be verified on the 

 oaths of the master and mate belonging to such ship, upon her return 

 from the said fishery, before the Collector and Comptroller of the 

 Customs at the port where she shall arrive, who shall transmit the 

 same, together with the schedule, licence, and other documents by this 

 Act required, to the respective Commissioners of the Customs for 

 that part of Great Britain where she shall arrive. 



XXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners of the Cus- 

 toms in England and Scotland respectively to order the respective 

 Receivers General of the Customs, in case the monies remaining in 

 their hands arising from the Old Subsidy shall not be sufficient at any 

 time or times, during the continuance of this Act. to satisfy the said 

 bounty of forty shillings per ton, and thirty shillings per ton, and 

 twenty shillings per ton, during the several periods herein before 

 limited, payable on all ships employed in the said fishery, according 

 to the directions of this present Act, to pay the same out of any 

 money that shall be in their hands arising from any of the duties and 

 revenues under their management respectively. 



XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scot- 

 land respectively shall, at the beginning of every Session of Parlia- 

 ment, lay before both Houses of Parliament an account in writing, 

 under their hands, of what number of ships employed in the whale 

 fishery to Davids Straits and the Greenland seas, in pursuance of 

 this Act, with their respective names and burthens, have returned to 

 Great Britain, and at what port in Great Britain they were dis- 

 charged, and also what quantity of oil, blubber, or whale fins, each 

 ship shall have imported, and from what port in Ireland or the Isle 

 of Man they were fitted out. 



"XXVII. And whereas it hath been found by experience, that 

 ships under the burthen of two hundred tons are fit for the said 

 fishery; " be it therefore enacted and declared by the authority afore- 

 said, That every owner or owners of any ship or ships under the 

 burthen of two hundred tons, which shall be employed in the said 

 fishery, who have conformed themselves in all respects to the rules 

 and directions herein before prescribed to the owners of ships of two 

 hundred tons, shall be intitled to the said bounty, as herein before 



