180 CHKONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HERRING-FISHERY. 



' for ilk last of the said exported herrings wliicli shall be 

 ' found unduly cured as said is, and that by legal probation, 

 ' or by attestation and declaration in manner above men- 

 ' tioned, to be applied to the behoof of the discoverer alle- 

 ' narly. And for the better advancing of the trade of export- 



* ing salmon fish, their Majesties and estates aforesaid, 

 ' do authorise and empower the magistrates or dean 

 ' of guild of ilk royal burgh to put this Act, and other 

 ' Acts of Parliament made thereauent, to all due execu- 

 ' tion ; declaring, nevertheless, as it is hereby expressly 

 ' provided and declared, that neither this present Act nor 

 ' anything therein contained, shall prejudice the particular 

 ' rights of any burgh royal within this kingdom, but that 



* the same be reserved to them as accords of the law : and 



* siklike, declaring that this Act is and shall be but pre- 

 ' judice to the power and privileges, rights and jurisdic- 

 ' tions, of the Court of Admiralty.' * 



It appears that the drawback of £10, 4s. Scots had not 

 been regularly paid to the merchants in the exportation 

 of the herrings, for in 1698 another Act was passed, or- 

 dering the officers of customs to pay the drawback, and 

 authorising the exporters to prosecute " the officersof cus- 

 tomers" for the drawback, if not regularly paid; but it might 

 have been more reasonable that the Treasury had paid it. 



' ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF WHITE FISHING AND 

 HERRING FISHING. 



' Our Sovereign Lord, considering that merchants and 



* others who employ their stock upon the trade of fishing, 

 ' have not received the encouragement granted them by 



* William and Mary, 1st Pari., 4 sec, 18tli April 1693. 



