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convoying ships provided by Government, 318 ; fishing boats armed for 

 their own protection, 318 ; loss to the fishery occasioned by frequent 

 wars, 319 ; regulations as to the mode of working the herring fishery, 

 320-322 ; as to protection of nets, &c., 322, 323 ; taxes levied on the 

 herring and other fisheries, 323-325 ; the revolt of the Dutch provinces 

 against the Austrian dominion, 326 ; its effect upon the fisheries, 326 ; 

 official recognition of a Herring Fisheries Commission, 326-328 ; powers 

 conferred on this Committee to enable them to secure the safety of 

 vessels engaged in the fishery, 329, 330 ; penalties against sale of fish in 

 foreign markets and against their exchange to foreigners, 330 ; codifica- 

 tion of the laws respecting fisheries, 330 ; grand or cured -herring fishery 

 under the Republic, 332-397 ; period of the year devoted to this fishery, 

 33 2 > 337> 338 J character of the vessels employed, 332 ; its importance as 

 compared with other fisheries, 332 ; regulations as to the hiring of crews 

 of fishing vessels, 333 ; period for salting herring fixed by law, 333 ; 

 measures adopted to prevent tampering with brands, 334-337 ; regula- 

 tions as to the description of salt to be used at sea, 337 ; and the mode 

 of packing the fish in barrels, 337, 338 ; legislative powers added to the 

 other functions of the Herring Fisheries Commission, 339 ; zeal of 

 Government in checking any foreign interference with Dutch brands, 

 340 ; energetic prosecution of the fishery at the latter part of the six- 

 teenth century, 341 ; losses sustained by the fishery during the war of 

 independence, 342 ; immunity granted to the fishery from excise duty on 

 salt, 342, 343 ; losses inflicted by Dunkirk privateers, 343 ; measures 

 taken for protection of the fishing fleets, 344 j stringency of the regula- 

 tions respecting the herring brand, 346 ; sale-hunting, 347-350 ; vigour 

 displayed by the College of the Grand Fishery in the exercise of its 

 functions, 350, 351 ; prohibition against exporting herring barrels, 351 ; 

 treaty with Hamburg relative to the date at which the sale of herring 

 might legally commence, 352 ; Fishery College invested with judicial 

 functions, 353-355 ; continued depredations by Dunkirk privateers, 355 

 grant of subsidies by the State for convoying, 356 ; Meynert Semeyn's 

 description of the mode of carrying on the fishery in his days (1639), 357 ; 

 constitution of the Fishery College described, 358, 359 ; value of the 

 herring fishery in the early part of the seventeenth century, 359 ; check 

 given to the trade by the war with England at the time of the Common- 

 wealth, 362, 363 ; system of convoying the rule at this period, 364 ; 

 increased stringency of the laws against selling fish at sea to foreigners, 

 &c., 364, 365 ; such laws frequently inoperative, 365 ; rigid enforcement 

 of the laws on shore, 366 ; instances of evasion of the laws, 367 j pro- 

 hibition against fishing in 1665 and 1666, on account of the war with 

 England, 369 ; losses occasioned to the fishery by this and other wars 

 between 1652 and 1678, 370, 371 ; grant of subsidies by the State, 371 ; 

 effects of these wars on internal organization of the trade, 371, 372 ; 

 falling off in the quality of the herring exported, 372 j improvement in 

 the prospects of the fishery after the peace of Nijmegen, 372 ; losses 

 sustained by the fishery during war with France at the close of the 

 seventeenth and beginning of eighteenth centuries, 373~375 ; the trade 



