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of the Provisions and Regulations contained in the Laws now in 

 force for encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland, and 

 Parts adjacent, are insufficient to answer the good Purposes thereby 

 intended, and that it is requisite that other Provisions and Regula- 

 tions should be enacted : " To that End, be it therefore enacted by the 

 King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent 

 of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from 

 and after the first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and 

 eighty-seven, the respective Bounties herein-after mentioned shall 

 be paid and allowed annually, for ten Years, to a certain number of 

 Ships or Vessels employed in the British Fishery on the Banks of 

 Newfoundland, under the Limitations and Restrictions herein-after 

 expressed; that is to say, That such Vessels shall appear by their 

 Register to be British-omit, and wholly owned by His Majesty's 

 subjects residing in Great Brifuin. I r< l/nnl. or the Islands of Guern- 

 sey, Jersey, or Man; and shall be navigated each with a Master, and 

 at least three Fourths of the Mariners oeing British, subjects, usually 

 residing in his Majesty's European Dominions: and shall be in other 

 Respects qualified and subject to the same Rules and Restrictions as 

 are prescribed by an Act. made in the tenth and eleventh years of the 

 Reign of King WILLIAM the Third, intituled. An Act to encourage the 

 Trade to Newfoundland: and shall be fitted and cleared out from 

 some Port in Great Britain, or from the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, 

 or Alderney, after the said first Day of January one thousand seven 

 hundred and eighty -seven, and after that Day in each succeeding 

 Year, and shall proceed to the Banks of Newfoundland ; and having 

 catched a Cargo of Fish upon those Banks, consisting of not less than 

 ten thousand Fish by Tale, shall land the same at any one of the 

 Ports on the North, the East, or the South Side of the Island of New- 

 foundland, between Cape Saint John and Cape Raye, on or before 

 the fifteenth Day of July in each Year, and shall make one more trip, 

 at least, to the said Banks, and return with another cargo of Fish 

 catched there, to the same Port : In which Case, the one hundred ves- 

 sels which shall first arrive at the Island of Newfoundland from the 

 Banks thereof, with a Cargo of Fish catched there, consisting of ten 

 thousand Fish by Tale, at the least: and which, after landing the 



same at one of the Ports within the Limits before mentioned 

 556 in Newfoundland, shall proceed again to the said Banks, and 



return to the said Island with another Cargo of Fish, shall, 

 if navigated with not less than twelve men each, be intitled to forty 

 Pounds each; but if any of the said one hundred vessels, so first 

 arriving as aforesaid, shall be navigated with less than twelve Men 

 each, and not less than seven, they shall be intitled to twenty-five 

 Pounds each : Provided always, That if, in either of the Cases before 

 mentioned, any of the one hundred vessels, so first arriving as afore- 

 said, shall be wholly navigated by men going out upon shares; that 

 is to say, receiving a certain Share of the profits arising from the 

 Voyage in lieu of Wages, such of the said Vessels as shall be so navi- 

 gated by not less than twelve Men each, shall be intitled to fifty 

 Pounds each; and if so navigated with a less Number than twelve 

 Men, and not less than seven, shall be intitled to thirty-five Pounds 

 each. And further, that the one hundred Vessels which shall next 

 so arrive in order of Time, on or before the said fifteenth Day of 



