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Parliamentary papers. Continued. 



to prevent the sale of fish taken by foreigners in foreign vessels. 



1699. 

 ^Petition of the Royal Fishery Company for encouragement and for fur- 



ther powers. 1699. 

 Bill for the better curing of fish and ascertaining and better payment of 



the drawback thereon. 1701. 

 Bill for preservation of salmon and other fish in the rivers of South- 



ampton. 1705. 

 Petition of Bristol Merchants complaining of excessive duty on fish taken 



in a French privateer. 1706. 

 Petition of T. Coutts and others for drawback on exportation of fish 



cured with foreign salt. 1707. 



Committee to consider means for improving the fishing trade. 1707. 

 Bill for encouraging the salmon fishery of Scotland. 1707. 

 Bill for encouragment of the herring and white fishing of Great Britain 



and of the Greenland fishery. 1707. 

 Bill for encouraging the fisheries. 1708. 

 Bill for payment of allowances on exportation of fish cured with foreign 



salt. "1708. 

 Bill for the preservation and improvement of the Thames fishery and for 



the regulation and government of the Company of fishermen, with 



petitions for and against, 1709 & 1710. 

 Bill for erecting a Corporation to carry on the trade to the South Seas 



and for the encouragment of the fishery. 1710. 

 Report of Committee on that part of the Queen's speech which relates 



to the fishery. 1713. 

 Bill for allowing a drawback on salt used for curing fish taken at North 



Seas and at Iceland. 1713. 

 Petition for importation of stock fish. 1714. 



Bill to prevent the importation of fresh fish caught by foreigners. 1714. 

 Petition of dealers in fish on the coast of Fife and other places referred 



to Committee. 1717. 



Bill to encourage and promote fisheries, etc., in Scotland. 1726-7 

 Petition from Great Yarmouth against the prohibition of thrown silk 



from Italy, the returns for fish exported being in that article. 1727. 

 Report of Committee on Greenland fishery and Bill for encouraging the 



same. 1731-2. 

 Report of Committee and Bill for encouraging the whale fishery, carried 



on by British subjects. 1732-3. 

 Bill for the better securing the property in decoys and to prevent the 



poisoning of fish in ponds, pools and other waters. 1733. 

 Clause in New River Bill to prevent the taking or destroying fish or 



game, by persons navigating on the River Lea. 1739. 

 Bill for the better preservation of game and fish, by the destruction of 



vermin. 1742. 

 Petition for a free fish market in Westminster and for preventing the 



forestalling and monopolizing of fish. 1749. 



v Report of Committee on the state of the British fishery. 1749. 

 v/Bill for encouragement of British herring and cod fisheries. 1749. 

 Bill for amending so much of Act I Geo. II as relates to the preservation 



of salmon in the Ribble. 1749. 



