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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



ix., 326 ; its effect upon the fisheries, 

 ix., 326 ; official recognition of a Her- 

 ring Fisheries Commission, ix., 326- 

 328 ; powers conferred on this com- 

 mittee to enable them to secure the 

 safety of vessels engaged in the 

 fishery, ix., 329, 330 ; penalties 

 against sale of fish in foreign markets 

 and against their exchange to foreig- 

 ners, ix., 330 ; codification of the 

 laws respecting fisheries, ix., 330 ; 

 FISHERIES UNDER THE REPUBLIC: 

 Grand or cured herring-fishery Pe- 

 riod of the year devoted to this 

 fishery, ix., 332, 337, 338 ; character 

 of the vessels employed, ix., 332 ; its 

 importance as compared with other 

 fisheries, ix., 332 ; regulations as to 

 the hiring of crews of fishing vessels, 

 ix., 333 ; period for salting herring in 

 barrels fixed by law, ix., 333 ; mea- 

 sures adopted to prevent tampering 

 with brands, ix., 334-337; regulations 

 as to the description of salt to be used 

 at sea, ix., 337 ; and the mode of 

 packing the fish in barrels, ix., 337, 

 338 ; legislative powers added to 

 the other functions of the Herring 

 Fisheries Commission, ix., 339 ; zeal 

 of Government in checking any 

 foreign interference with Dutch 

 brands, ix., 340 ; energetic prosecu- 

 tion of the fishery at the latter part 

 of the sixteenth century, ix., 341 ; 

 losses sustained by the fishery dur- 

 ing the war of independence, ix., 



342 ; immunity granted to the fishery 

 from excise duty on salt, ix., 342, 



343 ; losses inflicted by Dunkirk pri- 

 vateers, ix., 343 ; measures taken for 

 protection of the fishing fleets, ix., 

 344 ; stringency of the regulations 

 respecting the herring brand, ix., 

 346 ; "sale-hunting," ix., 347~35o ; 

 vigour displayed by the College of 

 the Grand Fishery in the exercise of 

 its functions, ix., 350, 351 ; prohibi- 

 tion against exporting herring barrels, 

 ix., 351 ; treaty with Hamburg rela- 

 tive to the date at which the sale of 

 herring might legally commence, ix., 



352 ; Fishery College invested with 

 judicial functions, ix., 353-355 ; con- 

 tinued depredations by Dunkirk pri- 

 vateers, ix., 355 ; grant of subsidies 

 by the State for convoying, ix., 356 ; 

 Meynert Semeyn's description of the 

 mode of carrying on the fishery in 

 his days (i 639), ix., 356, 357; con- 

 stitution of the Fishery College de- 

 scribed, ix., 358, 359 ; value of the 

 herring fishery in the early part of 

 the seventeenth century, ix., 359 ; 

 check given to the trade by the war 

 with England at the time of the Com- 

 monwealth, ix., 362, 363; system of 

 convoying the rule at this period, ix., 

 364 ; increased stringency of the laws 

 against selling fish at sea to foreigners, 

 &c., ix., 364, 365; such laws fre- 

 quently inoperative, ix., 365 ; rigid 

 enforcement of the laws on shore, ix. , 

 366 ; instances of evasion of the laws, 

 ix -> 3 6 7; prohibition against fishing in 

 1665 and 1666, on account of the war 

 with England, ix., 368, 369 ; losses 

 occasioned to the fishery by this and 

 other wars between 1652 and 1678, 

 ix -> 37> 37i; grant of subsidies by the 

 State, ix., 371 ; effects of these wars 

 on internal organization of the trade, 

 ix -> 371, 372 ; falling off in the quality 

 of the herring exported, ix., 372 ; 

 improvement in the prospects of the 

 fishery after the peace of Nijmegen, 

 ix., 372 ; losses sustained by the 

 fishery during war with France at the 

 close of the seventeenth and begin- 

 ning of eighteenth centuries, ix., 373- 

 375 ; the trade prevented from reco- 

 vering by the pressure of legislative 

 restrictions, ix., 376; instance of this 

 in the increasing supply of fish by 

 Scotch fishermen to Hamburg, ix., 

 376-384 ; permission granted to send 

 a limited quantity of herring to Ham- 

 burg direct from the fishery, ix., 382 ; 

 renewal of laws aga nst export of 

 herring barrels, &c., ix., 384 ; new 

 laws respecting branding of barrels, 

 iv., 385 ; continued complaints with 

 respect to quality of fish exported, 



