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taken by British fishing vessels, which, in the 

 first mentioned months, shall be sold at Bil- 

 lingsgate Market at, or under, 2d. per Ib. ; 

 and which in the other months shall be sold 

 thereat, or under, Id. per Ib. The bounty 

 in each year to be -continued in distribution 

 until the sum of 4000 shall thus be ex- 

 pended in it. 



The proposed bounty would operate precisely 

 on the same principle as the purchasing of the 

 surplus quantities of fish. It would afford, to the 

 extent of it, an indemnity against absolute loss, 

 when the supply should be very large, and the 

 prices consequently low. It would be distributed 

 only when the necessity was greatest, and, as in 

 the other cases, since all the fishermen would 

 seek to obtain the higher prices, it would be a 

 benefit which all would wish to avoid with the 

 losing sales, on which alone the bounty would be 

 payable. 



From the experience which the Committee have 

 already acquired on this method of encourage- 

 ment, and the opinions of those who are well 

 qualified to judge of the effect, it would seem 

 satisfactorily evident, that the general supply of 

 fish in London would be augmented by this bounty 

 to an extent very far indeed beyond the increase 

 obtained by any former one of the like amount. 



The Committee would here further observe, 



