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one years, and embodying regulations for the manage- 

 ment of the iishery. It enacted that three per cent, per 

 annum should be paid out of the customs to the company 

 for every L.lOO actually expended, for fourteen years, and 

 a bounty of 30s. per ton on all decked vessels built or 

 fitted out for the fishery of from twenty to eighty tons, 

 said vessels to be on the east coast at the rendezvous of 

 Brassa Sound, in Shetland, on or before the 11th June 

 each year, but not to shoot their nets before the 13th 

 June, and continue fishing till the 1st October ; the 

 vessels on the West Coast to rendezvous at Campbelton 

 on or before the 1st September each year, and continue 

 fishing to the 31st December, unless the loadings were 

 sooner completed. Each vessel was to have a journal of 

 proceedings, of the quantity of fish sent to foreign mar- 

 kets, of the quantity brought into port, to carry twelve 

 Winchester bushels of salt for each last of herrings the 

 vessel stowed, the herrings to be barrelled in new barrels ; 

 each vessel of seventy tons and upwards to have two 

 fleets of tanned nets — namely, one fleet of fifty nets, each 

 net to be thirty yards full upon the rope and seven fathoms 

 deep, and in proportion for a vessel of greater or lesser 

 tonnage on board, and be provided with one other fleet of 

 fifty like nets on board a jagger or tender sent to attend 

 the said fishery, or left on shore in a proper place for the 

 use of such buss or vessel ; each vessel of twenty tons to 

 have six men, and larger vessels to have one man for 

 every additional five tons. This Act did not exclude 

 others from fishing as before ; other companies, sub- 

 scribing L. 10,000, or more, were also permitted to carry 

 on the fishing separately with the same advantages, 

 but were not to have any share of the profits in the 

 society. 



