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July in each Year, at the said Island, with a like Cargo, and shall 

 proceed again to the said Banks, and return from thence in the Man- 

 ner herein before mentioned, shall, if navigated with not less than 

 twelve Men ea^h, be intitled to twenty-five Pounds each ; but if such 

 one hundred Vessels, so arriving as aforesaid the next in order of 

 Time, shall be navigated each with less than twelve, and not less 

 than seven Men, they shall be intitled to eighteen Pounds each : Pro- 

 vided also, That if, in either of the Cases last mentioned, any of the 

 Vessels so arriving next in order of Time as aforesaid, shall be so 

 navigated wholly by Men going out upon Shares, that is to say, re- 

 ceiving a certain Share of the Profits arising from the Voyage in 

 lieu of Wages, such of the said Vessels as shall be so navigated by 

 not less than twelve Men each, shall be intitled to thirty-five Pounds 

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

 not less than seven, shall be intitled to twenty-one Pounds each ; upon 

 the Master or Owner of every such Vessel respectively producing to 

 the Collector or other Principal Officer of his Majesty's Customs, at 

 the Port in Great Britain from whence such Vessel was cleared out, 

 or, if cleared out from either of the said Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, 

 or Alderney, to the Collector or other Principal Officer of the Customs 

 in some Port of Great Britain, a Certificate, under the Hand and 

 Seal of the Governor of Newfoundland, that the Master of such Ves- 

 sel had produced to him a Certificate, under the Hands of the Col- 

 lector and Comptroller of the Customs at the Port from whence such 

 Vessel was cleared out, or if cleared out f 3m the Islands of Guernsey, 

 Jersey, or Alderney, under the Hands of the Governor or Deputy 

 Governor, and Principal Officer of the Customs there, testifying that 

 such Vessel was duly qualified to proceed on such Fishery in pur- 

 suance of the before recited Act, made in the tenth and eleventh Years 

 of the Reign of King WILLIAM the Third ; and that it has been made 

 to appear to his Satisfaction, by a Certificate under the Hand and 

 Seal of the Naval Officer of the District in Newfoundland where such 

 Fish was landed, or, where there is no Naval Officer, under the Hand 

 and Seal of the Commander of any of his Majesty's Ships stationed 

 there, or of such Officer as the Governor shall approve, specifying 

 the Time of such Vessel's Arrival in Manner before directed, that such 

 Vessel was intitled, by the Priority and Time of her Arrival, to one 

 or other of the Bounties therein mentioned, as the Fact may be ; and 

 that the Master and Mate of such Vessel had made Oath, before 

 such Naval or other Officer as aforesaid, that the Number of Fish 

 taken on the first Trip amounted to ten thousand at least by Tale; 

 that he had made two Trips at least, and that all the Fish on both 

 Trips were catched on the Banks of Newfoundland by the Crew of 

 such Vessel only; which Certificate and Oath the said Governor, and 

 Naval or other Officer as aforesaid, are hereby impowered and re- 

 quired to grant and administer to the Master and Mate of such Vessel, 

 without Fee or Reward ; and upon delivering up the said Certificate 

 to such Collector, the respective Bounties therein mentioned shall 

 be paid by such Collector in such and the like Manner, and out of the 

 same Funds, as the Bounties herein before mentioned to have been 

 granted by the said recited Act, made in the said fifteenth Year of the 

 Reign of his present Majesty. 



II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in 

 each and every Certificate of a Ship being duly qualified as aforesaid 



