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420 A. D. 1797. 



directs ; and that every commander of a veflel, knowingly employin^ 

 a deferter from another veflel, fliall forfeit X^io-o. Neither fhall any 

 Britifli commander hire feamen in the Wefl-Indies at any higher pay 

 than double monthly wages, unlefs particularly authorized in writing 

 by the governor, the chief raagiftrate, or the colledlor or comptroller 

 of the port. All vefl"els trading to the Weft-Tndies are required to have 

 to every 100 tuns of their burthen one apprentice under feventeen 

 years of age indented for three years, whole indentures muft be en- 

 rolled at the cuftom-houfe of the port of departure : and fuch appren- 

 tices are exempted from ferving in the navy during their apprentice- 

 fliip. Eve.y commander is required to give in to the colle6tor or compt- 

 roller of the port an exaft Uft and defcription of his crew, fpecifying 

 and delcribing any who have deferted, within ten days after his arrival 

 in the port, abroad or at home. 



The wages of feamen, who have died in the voyage, muft be paid 

 to the receiver of the fixpenny duty for Greenwich hofpital, who fliall pay 

 the money to the lawful heirs of the dead men \ and, failing any ap- 

 plication within three years, it fliall be given to the feamen's hofpital 

 of the port to which the veflel, onboard which the men died, belong- 

 ed ; and, if there be no fuch hofpital, to the old and difabled fea- 

 men of the port and their families, to be diftributed at the difcretion 

 of two or more of the magiflrates of the county. 



Nothing in this ad: extends to feamen regularly difcharged, and hav- 

 ing certificates from their former commanders, who are bound to give 

 them fuch, or to feamen hired on urgent neceflity *. [r. 73] 



The Eaft-India company having raifed two regiments of infantry for 

 the defence and protection of their houfes and their various warehoufes, 

 and alfo for other public fervices, the meafure was fandtioned by par- 

 liament, not with flandlng the appropriation of their revenue by the ad 

 23 Geo. in, c. 53. [r. 74] 



The bounty, hitherto allowed on the exportation of Britifh-made 

 fail-cloth or canvafs to Ireland,, was now difcontinued till the 25'" of 

 March 1798. [c. 76] 



The port of San Jofef in the ifland of Trinidad was made a free 

 port for the admiflion of foreign vefl'els, &c. on the fame terms as the 

 free ports already opened in Jamaica and others of the Britifli Wefl- 

 India iflands. [r. 77] 



June 19'" — In order to avoid the great hazard Britifh vefTels run in 

 trading to the Levant, and the proportionate expenfe of infurance, the 

 rigour of the navigation a(5l was fo far difpenfed with, as to permit the 

 members of the Turkey company to import the goods ufually brought 

 from Turkey, or Egypt, or other parts of the Turkifh dominions in 



* The pka of urgent neceffity can at any ti'ne overturn the wkole regulations againft giving enorm- 

 ous wages. 



