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limited, according to the admeasurement of such ship or ships 

 respectively. 



XXVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority 

 aforesaid, That no ship to be employed in the said fishery, although 

 she be above the burthen of four hundred tons, shall be intitled to a 

 larger bounty than a ship of four hundred tons would be intitled to. 



XXIX. Provided also, That nothing in this present Act contained 

 shall extend, or be construed to extend, to oblige the owner or owners 

 of any ship above the burthen of four hundred tons, in order to intitle 

 him or them to the said bounty, to fit out, equip, and man any such 

 ship, otherwise than as a ship of the burthen of four hundred tons 

 only is, by this present Act, required to be fitted out, equipped, and 

 manned. 



XXX. Provided also, and it is hereby further enacted by the 

 authority aforesaid, That every apprentice indentured after the 

 twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and 

 seventy-five, to serve on board any ship or vessel proceeding on the 

 fisheries, in pursuance of this or any other Act of Parliament now in 

 force, granting any bounty or bounties thereon, shall not exceed the 

 age of eighteen years, nor be under fourteen, at the time he shall be 

 so indentured; and that no bounty shall be allowed or paid for any 

 ship or vessel so employed, either by virtue of this or any former Act 

 of Parliament, unless the whole and entire property of such ship or 

 vessel shall belong to some of His Majesty's subjects residing in that 

 part of His Majesty's Dominions from whence such ship or vessel 

 shall be respectively fitted and cleared out, any law, custom, or usage, 

 to the contrary notwithstanding. 



" XXXI. And, to prevent any application to Parliament for the 

 bounty on any ship employed in either of the fisheries before men- 

 tioned, which may happen to be lost at sea before their return to 

 Great Britain" be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 That it shall and may be lawful for the owner or owners of any ship, 

 employed, or designed to be employed, in the said fisheries, or either 

 of them, to insure the bounty which such owner or owners would have 

 been intitled to upon the return of such ship to Great Britain, on the 

 performance of all other matters directed and appointed by this 

 present Act to be performed for obtaining the said bounties. 



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

 That if any person or persons shall give or grant any false certificate 

 for any of the purposes required or directed by this Act, such person 

 or'persons shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds, and be ren- 

 dered incapable of serving His Majesty, his heirs or successors, in any 

 office whatsoever; and if any person or persons shall counterfeit, 



erase, alter, or falsify, any certificate required or directed by 

 550 this Act, or shall knowingly or willingly make use of any false 



certificate, or of any certificate so counterfeited, erased, altered, 

 or falsified, such person or persons shall, for every such offence, forfeit 

 the sum of five hundred pounds; and every such certificate shall be 

 invalid, and of no effect. 



XXXIII. And it is hereby further enacted by (he authority 

 aforesaid, That one moiety of the penalties and forfeitures inflicted 

 by this Act (except in such cases where other directions are given 

 by this Act) shall be to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and sue- 



