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letters, if figned on the back by their commanding officers, to any place 

 on paying one penny ; and they may alfo receive their letters from any 

 place on paying the fame low portage. — Covers, open at the fides, and 

 containing patterns of cloths, filks, fluffs, &c, and containing no writ- 

 ing but the addrefs of the fender and the prices of the goods, are allow- 

 ed to go for fingle portage. \_c. 53] 



' Whereas it is expedient that the fiflieries of this kingdom rtiould 

 * receive every reafonable encouragement from time to time, they may 

 ' be found to require, and which it is in the power of parHament to 

 ' beftow,' the curers of fifli are empowered to import foreign fait on 

 paying the cuftom duty, or to receive Britifti fait from the fait works 

 or pits free from duty, and to carry either of them coaftways, for the 

 purpofe of curing mackerel, or any cod, ling, hake, or falmon, taken in 

 the mackerel fifhery, in as ample a manner as the curers of herrings 

 or pilchards for home confumption are enabled to do by the ads in 

 force. They are alfo entitled to a bounty of 2/8 on every barrel, of 

 32 gallons, of white mackerel, twice packed and completely cured, ex- 

 ported to any foreign country, except thofe bordering on the Mediter- 

 ranean fea, and to a bounty of i/for every fuch barrel landed from the 

 boats or veflels. Such mackerel, cod, ling, &c, may alio be carried 

 coaftways to and from any part of Great Britain, [c. 54] 



The adl of 26 Geo. Ill, c. 81 for the encouragement of the Britifh 

 fifheries, and the a6l 27 Geo. Ill, c. 10, for extending the provifions of 

 that ad, were renewed, and continued in force till the i" of June 1797. 

 — The time for the bufles clearing out, was extended to the 20"* of No- 

 vember, inftead of the 1" of 06lober. — A bounty of one ftiilling, in ad- 

 dition to the former bounty of one flailling, per barrel, was allowed on 

 all herrings landed from any boat or veflel not entitled to the tunnage 

 bounty, which are properly faked and cured. — Herrings, fprinkled with 

 fait at landing, may be carried in bulk coaftways to the refidence of the 

 curers during the fifliing feafon, as may alfo the cod, ling, hake, and fai- 

 mon, taken in the herring fifhery, on complying with the regulations 

 refpedling fait, and the coquet accompanying the fifh exprefling that no 



bounty has been paid upon them The rigorous part of the ad of the 



Scottifh parliament in the reign of Queen Anne, which direded magif- 

 trates to feize barrels containing any ungutted herrings, and to fine the 



proprietors, was repealed Inftruments of arreftment in the hands of 



the commiffioners of the cuftoms in Scotland, or their receiver-general, 

 for attaching bounties due to owners of fifhing vefTels, muft fpecify for 



which veflel the arreftment is intended Such inhabitants of the 



United provinces as have been employed in catching herrings, cod, 

 ling, haddock, turbot, &c, or in the whale fifhery at Greenland or 

 Davis's ftraits, or in building velTels, cutting whale-bone, making nets 

 ■or barrels, or in preparing fait for the fifheries, as chufe to refide and 

 carry on their bulinefs in this kingdom, are permitted, on taking the 



