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specting officer was to certify that tlie herrings were not re- 

 packed till fifteen days expired after they were firstpacked. 

 Any person convicted of making a false oath, or fraudu- 

 lently marking any of the barrels, incurred a penalty of 

 L.50, or six months' imprisonment. 



8. The crew to receive from the owner of the buss a 

 bounty of 2s. for every full packed barrel of herrings, of 

 which f ths was paid to the master, and |^th to the mate, 

 and the remaining fths divided equally among the rest 

 of the crew. 



9. The number of trustees for manufactures and fish- 

 eries increased from twenty-one to twenty-eight, out of 

 which his Majesty to appoint seven commissioners for the 

 management of the fisheries, who appoint the fishery 

 officers, subject to the approval of the Treasury, but they 

 shall have been coopers and acquainted with the business. 



The Admiralty was authorised to appoint a naval com- 

 missioned-ofiicer to superintend, with such a force as 

 should enable him to preserve order among the persons 

 employed, and protect them from their enemies, to over- 

 see the executive part of the whole fishery, at any time 

 inspect storehouses or vessels, examine the certificates and 

 journals of the masters, and the manner in which the 

 herrings were cured ; any person opposing this to forfeit 

 L.lOO ; and the jurisdiction of sherifi's, and stewarts'-de- 

 putes, and their substitutes, is extended over all persons 

 engaged in catching, curing, and dealing in fish, within 

 their respective counties and stewartries, and also within 

 ten miles of the coasts of their said counties and stewart- 

 ries, in as full and ample a manner as the same is exercised 

 over the inhabitants of these counties and stewartries. 



Notwithstanding the high tonnage-bounties offered by 



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