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to proceed on the said Fishery, there shall be inserted the real Number 

 of the Mariners then belonging to such Vessel, and intended to be em- 

 ployed in the said Fishery, distinguishing how many of them are 

 new or green Men, and whether they are hired upon Shares, or are to 

 receive Wages; which Facts are to be verified on the Oath of the 

 Master of the Vessel, made or taken before the Person who shall 

 grant the said Certificate, and who is hereby authorised and required 

 to administer to same, and to insert such Facts in such Certificate; 

 and if such Vessels shall be cleared out from the said Islands of 

 Guernsey, Jersey, or Alderney, then such Oath shall be taken before 

 a Magistrate of the Royal Court, in the Presence of the Principal 

 Officer of the Customs who shall grant such Certificate, the whole to 

 be attested by the Governor of each of the said Islands respectively ; 

 on Failure whereof, such Vessels shall be excluded from the Benefit 

 of this Act, and shall not be intitled to or receive any of the Bounties 

 herein before granted. 



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

 the several Certificates to be given and Affidavits taken in Newfound- 

 land as aforesaid, in order to satisfy the said Governor of the said 

 Island, as to the Facts to ground his Certificate thereupon, as herein 

 before directed, for the Payment of the said Bounties, shall and are 

 hereby required, within the District of Saint John" 1 *, in the said 

 Island of Newfoundland, to be transmitted to the said Governor at 

 /Saint John's, before the fifteenth Day of September in each Year, 

 and within any other District in the said Island before the thirtieth 

 Day of September in each Year, in order that he may perfectly 

 examine the Documents, and thoroughly investigate the same, so as 

 to be able clearly and justly to settle the Times of the Arrivals as 

 aforesaid of the several and respective Vessels, and adjust the dif- 

 ferent Bounties, and to whom they are and ought severally to be 

 paid. 



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

 every Master of a Vessel, intitled to any of the Bounties herein 

 before granted, shall, before he shall receive the same, or any part 



thereof, made Oath before the Collector and Comptroller, or 

 557 other Chief Officer at the Port in Great Britain where he shall 



arrive on his Return from the said Fishery upon the Banks 

 of Newfoundland, that all the Men belonging to his Ship who sailed 

 out with him, or a Number of Men equal thereto, are returned to 

 Great Britain, unless any of his Crew shall have died at Newfound- 

 land, or in the said Voyage, either on the Passage out or Return 

 Home, or have deserted without his Knowledge or Consent, or have 

 been shipped in or on board British Vessels bound for foreign Mar- 

 kets ; which facts shall also be verified on Oath by every such Master, 

 before the said Officers or Officer of the Customs, who are respectively 

 hereby authorised and required to administer the same. 



"V. And whereas, by the said recited Act. made in the fifteenth 

 Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, it is enacted, That no 

 Hirer or Employer shall pay or advance to any Seaman or Fisher- 

 man, or either of them, during the Time he shall be in his Service, 

 more than Half the Wages which shall at any Time be due to him : 

 And whereas in the Case of green Men, the Advance of one Half of 

 the Wages may not always be sufficient to fit them out and clothe 

 them for the Season ; " be it therefore enacted by the Authority afore- 



