45© A. D. 1798, 



Drawbacks, and bounties on exportation. 

 Salt made in England or Wales, rock salt excepted, per bushel . . . ^0 



Salt made in Scotland, rock salt excepted do O 



Glauber or Epsom salt • • • • • • • ^'^ O 



Dried cod, ling, or hake, measuring at least 14 inches from the bone"} „ 



in the fin to the third joint of the tail .... per cwt J 



Wet cod, ling, or hake per barrel of 32 gallons O 



Salmon per barrel of 42 gallons O 4 



White herrings per barrel of 32 gallons O 



Full red hen-ings do .0 



Clean shotten red herrings do O 



Red sprats per last of 10,000 sprats 



Pilchards or scads per cask of 50 gallons 



Beef and pork cured in England or Wales, per barrel of 32 gallons . . O 



Beef and pork cured in Scotland with foreign salt, without mixture of"}^ 050 



British or Irish, per barrel of 32 gallons J 



The barrels, &c. muft be gauged, and the meafurement afcertained 

 by Englifh wine meafure. Thofe containing fifli mufl: alfo be marked 

 with the letters B F (Britifh fifhery) and the names of the curers, and 

 the date, branded on a confpicuous part of the cafk. 



Salt for exportation can only be delivered at the works where it is 

 made or refined, and at the export warehoufes for fait, licenced by this 

 act to be eftablifhed at Briftol and Liverpool. 



On giving bond, and complying with a multitude of reflrictions, and 

 in fome cafes obtaining an order from the commiffioners of the treafury, 

 fait is allowed free from duty for curing fifh, in the following proportions. 



For dried cod per hundredweight 50 pounds 



wet cod per barrel of 32 gallons .... 56 



salmon do. . . . >12 gallons .... 36 



white herrings do. ... 32 gallons . . . 140 



full red herrings do do 65 



shotten red herrings . . . do do 5Q 



red sprats last 25 



pilchards or scads .... barrel of 50 gallons 280 



mackerel do. . . 32 gallons 84 



The fait, which by being repeatedly applied to the fifh has become 

 foul, may, by a warrant from 'the treafury to the commiffioners of ex- 

 cife, be permitted to be fold for the fole purpofe of manuring the 

 rjround ; but only in fuch places where foul fifliery fait has heretofore 

 ufualiy been fold for that purpofe. 



The duties upon Britifh fait, employed by the bleachers in making 

 oxygenated muriatic acid, are allowed to be drawn back, \^ith a de- 

 dudtion of feven and a half per cent, under certain regulations. 



The lord mayor and aldermen of London, and the juilices in general 

 feffions, are required to fix the price of lalt to be fold by retail. 



The reft of the adl, which confifts of 143 fedions, is filled with an 

 almoft-innumerable variety of reftridions, forfeitures, bonds, and pen- 



