496 THE HISTORY OF DUTCH SEA FISHERIES. 



.3000 was granted them on January 1 5th, 1802, and on May 

 2 ist the sum was increased to fl. 12,800, by the addition of the 

 ordinary subsidies, which had been kept back in the pre- 

 ceding years. Besides the subsidies, which as formerly were 

 intended to cover general College expenditure, a premium 

 of fl./oo for each buss to sail in that year was allowed by 

 the Legislative Body on April 27th, somewhat to the 

 committee's disappointment, as the sums applied for by 

 them were fl.Soo for 1802, and fl.5oo for the next ten years. 

 The other branches of sea-fishery likewise applied for 

 premiums to recommence their business. The Commis- 

 sioners of the Greenland fishery * had the highest preten- 

 sions of all, and sued for fl.3OOO as a premium for each 

 whaler carrying forty men and seven boats, besides fl.5OOO 

 as an indemnification for each of twenty-nine whalers which 

 had been sent north in 1798, and all taken by the English. 

 As, however, the Treasury could afford no such largess, 

 they had to be content with fl.2OOO for each whaling ship 

 equipped and sailed in 1802, besides the " indemnization " t 

 formerly held out by the Placard of October 3rd, 1788,^ to 

 the amount of fl.5o for each quarter of train oil wanting to a 

 hundred in each cargo. The commissioners of the small, or 

 Iceland cod-fishery at Vlaardingen and Maassluis were 

 likewise accommodated with bounties to the amount of fl.7OO 

 for each vessel, and the fresh-herring fishery of the Side 

 had fl.2OO held out to them as a premium for each bum- 

 boat. || One hundred and sixty-eight busses sailed in this 

 memorable year of peace, 1802 ; and it may be readily 



* See part ii. chap. ii. 



f " Premie van dedommagement." 



\ See part ii. chap. ii. 



See part ii. chap. iii. 



|| Notulen van het Staatsbewind, Dec. 1801 June, 1802, passim. 



