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The bounty of 7/' and the additional bounty of 2/", on every hogf- 

 head, containing 50 gallons, of falted pilchards exported, which were 

 allowed by former a<5ts, were continued till the 24"' of June 1791 ; with 

 a condition, that, when more than 20,000 hogflieads are exported in any 

 one year, the additional bounty of 2/'fliall be allowed only for 20,000 

 hogfheads, and that funi (hall be divided among the whole exporters in 

 proportion to the quantity exported by each. [26 Geo. Ill, c. 45.] 



June 16"" — For the encouragenient of the Southern whale fifliery, the 

 following premiums were enaded to be paid for ten years to twenty 

 veflels profecuting that fifhery according to the regulations prefcribed, 

 viz. 



Y ox fifteen vefTels, which fhould fail between the i'' of May and the 

 i" of September in each year, and having proceeded to the iouthward 

 of 7° north latitude, and carried on the fifhery for whales and other marine 

 animals, fhould return to Great Britain before the 1" of July in the fubfe- 

 quent year, 

 each of three fhips having the greateft quantity of pure oil or 



head-matter _ _ _ _ - . X^5oo 



each of the three having the next greateft quantities - 400 



each of the three having the next greateft quantities - 300 



each of the three having the next greateft quantities - 200 



each of the three having the next greateft quantities - 1 00 



For five veffels, failing as above, and proceeding beyond '^Ci' fouth 

 latitude, and returning not fooner than eighteen months, nor later than 

 twenty-eight months, after the i"of May in the year of their departure, 

 premiums of £']oo, £600, £s°o, ^^400, and ;^300, according to the 

 quantity of oil and head-matter. 



No premium is allowed to any vellel having lefs than twenty tuns of 

 oil and head-matter, and the whole muft be the produce of whales or 

 other marine animals really caught by the crews of the veflels. The 

 vcflels muft be Britifh-built, and owned by perfons refiding in Great 

 Britain, Ireland, Guernfey, Jerfey, or Mann ; and the commanders and 

 three fourths of the crews muft be Britifh fubjeds : but veflels clearing 

 out from Great Britain may carry foreign proteftants, who have been 

 formerly employed in fuch fifheries, on their making oath that they 

 intend to fettle in Great Britain as fubjeds. Each veffel muft have one 

 apprentice, bound for three years, for every fifty tuns of her meafure- 

 ment. The veffels may clear out from any port of Great Britain, Ire- 

 land, Guernfey, Jerfey, or Mann. A regular log-book muft be kept, 

 which muft be produced to the commander of every Britifh fhip of war 

 met with at fea, and to the Britifh conful, if any, in every port the fliip 

 may touch at, and finally muft be delivered, with atteftation upon oath 

 of the truth of the contents, to the colledlor of the cuftoms at the port 

 of arrival. Veffels engaged in thefe fifhing voyages are allowed, upoH 



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