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60 tons for the herring or white fishery, and which should 

 continue to fish for three months, or until a complete 

 cargo of fish had been caught, with various proportional 

 rates to be allowed for cured herrings and white fish. 



And a further bounty was off'ered of L.3 per ton of oil 

 extracted from white or other fish, and L.4 for every ton 

 of whalebone taken on the coast of Ireland. 



And also a bounty of 3s. per barrel on all herrings fished 

 and cured on the coast of Ireland, and 4s. per cwt. on 

 cured cod, ling, or other white fish, to be payable to all 

 parties curing such, but not to those who receive the 50s. 

 tonnage bounties ; and the following clauses are very 

 proper ones : — 



Clause 15. — " And whereas shoals of herrings are fre- 

 quently frightened from the entrance of the bays and 

 creeks by vessels mooring, and shooting the nets at im- 

 proper places, and by shooting long lines at the entrance 

 of the bays and creeks, no vessel on the coast of Ireland 

 shall moor or shoot nets or lines in any place forbidden by 

 the inspector, under the penalty of L.20." 



Clause 16. — " No net shall be shot or wet on the coast 

 of Ireland during the day-time, under a penalty of L.IO, 

 nor at any time at any place, if forbidden by the inspec- 

 tor, under a penalty of L.20." 



The other regulations were similar to those for the 

 British herring-fishery, but these two clauses ought to 

 be made perpetual and applicable to all the British 

 coasts. 



This Act was to be in force five years. 



By another subsequent Act, 1 Geo. IV. c. 82, purport- 

 ing to be for " regulating the fishery in Ireland, dated 24th 

 July 1820, the Act of the 12th July 1819, as to the Irish 

 fisheries, was altered in the following respects, — the 



