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taken in bushes, and exported out of this kingdom, a 

 reward of eighteen pounds — and for each last of red herr 

 rings exported as said is, a reward of twenty-four pounds, 

 — either to be paid to the exporter, his heirs, executors, 

 or assigns, by the next collector of her Majesty's cus- 

 toms to the port from which the said herring or white 

 fish are exported, or, in the opinion of the merchant 

 exporter, that he have retention of the foresaid allow- 

 ance or drawback in the first end of the custom, and 

 excise of the first foreign goods imported by him, either 

 in the ship that exported the herring or white fish, or 

 in any other ship, the export being instructed in the 

 terms of the 24th Act of the Parliament 1698, certifying 

 all contraveners that they shall be liable to the penal- 

 ties contained in that Act, attour to loss of their ofiices, 

 and that their being incapable to be employed in any 

 office about the customs thereafter ; and further it is 

 statute and ordained, that the execution provided by 

 this Act for recovery of the drawback of herring, shall 

 be extended to the proprietors and exporters of salmon, 

 cured in manner above mentioned, for the drawback 

 appointed to be given on that account by the former 

 Act thereanent. Moreover, her Majesty, for further 

 encouragement to any who shall undertake the im- 

 provement of the herring and white fishing, hereby, 

 with advice and consent foresaid, statutes and declares 

 that all foreigners, or strangers, fishers, who shall be 

 employed by any of the foresaid particular persons or 

 societies, and reside in this nation, shall enjoy all the 

 privileges of free-born subjects during the said resi- 

 dence ; and also statutes and ordains, that cordage, 

 hemp, cork, pitch, tar, plank board, knaples, skows, 

 hoops Dutch netts, and all other materials to be im- 



