104 A.D. 1786. 



backs are not payable, till a certificate is received of the arrival of the 

 goods. Commanders of veflels, negleding to bring to at the ufual 

 places to receive onboard, or to land, the revenue officers, are made 

 liable to a penalty of jTioo : and revenue officers are empowered to de- 

 mand accefs to every part of any vefTel, and forcibly to open any cheft 

 or box, the key of which is withheld from them. Commanders of fhips 

 of war, and inferior officers authorized by them, are empowered to feize 

 any veflel or goods fubje(S to forfeiture, without any deputation from 



the commiflioners of the revenue The a6l contains a multitude of 



other regulations all tending to render it next to impoffible to fmuggle 

 the fmallefl article from onboard a veffel, and alfo laying reflraints 

 upon riie inland carriage of Eaft-India goods. [26 Geo. Ill, c. 40.] 



June 13'" — The ad for giving a bounty on the Greenland whale 

 tilhery being almoft expired, a bounty oi thirty foiUings per tun, to con- 

 tinue for five years after the 25'" of December 1786, was now allowed 

 on every voyage to Greenland or Davis's ftraits to all Britifti veflels pro- 

 perly qualified, of which the mafters and three fourths of the crews are 

 Britifli fubjedls, and failing from Great Britain, Guernfey, Jerfey, or 

 Mann, on or before the 10'" of April in every year for the purpofe of 

 catching whales and other marine animals. Ships of 200 tuns muft 

 carry 40 harpoon irons and 40 lines, 4 boats, and 30 men, including 

 the mafler and furgeon: and ihips from 200 to 400 tuns mufl carry 10 

 harpoon irons, 10 lines, i boat, and 6 men for every 50 tuns of their 

 meafurement above 200. Vefl^els of 150 tuns are now entitled to the 

 bounty, their number of men, &c. being in proportion : and after the 

 25"" of December 1786 no vefl~el is entitled to bounty for more than 

 300 tuns, unlefs fhe has been already employed in the fame fifhery. 

 Every fhip muft keep a regular log-book, which mufl; be produc- 

 ed to the commander of any Britifti fliip of war they may meet with 

 at fea, and to the Britifii conful at any port they may put into, who 

 are required to note upon it the time it was produced. And they muft 

 keep the Greenland feas, the fouthern limit of which is declared to be 

 the parallel of 59" 30' north latitude, till the 10"' day of Auguft, unlefs 

 they may have fooner obtained a cargo of at leaft lo tuns of oil, or in- 

 ftead of it 15 tuns of blubber, and one half tun of whale fins, for every 

 100 tuns of their veflTel's burthen, the produce of whales or other marine 

 animals caught by the crew in thofe feas.— The oil, blubber, and fins, 

 of whales, the oil and fkins of feals, and in general the produce of marine 

 animals caught in the Greenland feas by Britifli veflels conforming to 

 all the regulations of this ad:, are admitted to entry free of duty — And 

 veflels fitted out from Ireland, agreeable to the regulations of this ad ; 

 are alfo entitled to the fame bounty. [26 Geo. Ill, c. 41.] 



Parliament laid an additional duty of one halfpenny on every batten, 

 and of two pence on every deal, imported in Great Britain. [26 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 42.] 



