170 A. D. 1788. 



fifliery, and entitled to premiums according to the terms of the ad, were 

 altered to between the i" of January and the i'' of November for the 

 departure, and to any time before the i" of September in the next en- 

 fuing year for the arrival. The/t't' veiTels, entitled to another clafs of 

 premiums by the fame ad, were in future to fail within the time now 

 prefcribed for the fifteen, and to return before the lafl day of the year 

 fubfequent to that in which they failed, but fo as not to be lefs tharT 

 fourteen months out. Additional premiums of ^^800, ^^700, and /^6oo, 

 were allowed to three of the twenty veflels above mentioned, which 

 Ihould employ four months in fifhing to the weftward of Cape Horn, 

 and return on or before the i" of December in the fecond year after 

 failing, lo as not to be lefs than eighteen months out, with the greateft 

 quantities of pure oil or head-matter, being not lefs than thirty tuns at 

 the lealh — Veflels palling the Cape of Good Hope were now permitted 

 to go north as far as the Equinodial, and eall as far as 51° call from 

 London : and veflels palling Cape Horn may proceed north to the 

 Equinodial and well to 1 80° weft from London. They muft be pro- 

 vided with licences, agreeable to the former ad, from the Eaft-India 

 company and the South-fea company, and muft give bond to the form- 

 er that no goods Ihall be taken onboard, except ftores and neceflaries 

 for the veflels and crews, and alfo fubmit to be fearched when they 

 call at S'. Helena. Velfels of not lefs than 200 tuns burthen, intending 

 to pafs either of the Capes, may be armed for their defence, on obtain- 

 ing a licence from the admiralty. — Foreigners, formerly employed in 

 the whale filhery, who might be defirous of fettling with their families in 

 this kingdom for the purpofe of carrying on fuch filhery, were allowed 

 till the 1'' of January 1790 to bring their veiTels, if built befor the 1" 

 of January 1788, not exceeding forty in all,, and each carrying at leaft 

 twelve men accuftomed to the filhery, and to have licences for ufing 

 them in the whale filhery only, and to import the oil, &c. free of duty ; 

 but not to be entitled to the premiums. Such foreigners, after refiding 

 in Britain and carrying on the whale filhery for five years, become en- 

 titled, on taking the oaths of allegiance, to the privileges of Britifli fub- 

 jeds, and to regifters for their veftels, which thenceforth are entitled to 

 the premiums. — For the greater encouragement to fuch foreigners to 

 eftablilh themfelves in this country, each of the eleven firft veflels which 

 Ihould arrive were permitted to import 70 tuns of oil or head-matter, 

 the produce of marine animals caught by the crews, for which the firft 

 fix were to pay no duty, the next two ^5 per tun, and the remaining 

 three /^ 10 per tun, on the owners giving bond with fecurity to fettle 

 themfelves and their crews in Great Britain, [r. 20] 



June ii"" — There was raifed by a lottery this year the fum of 

 ^750,600, whereof /^27o, 600 remained a clear profit to the public over 

 paying the prizes, [r. 21.. J 



