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reduced and ultimately abolished the several bounties and 

 allowances from and after the 5th July 1825, which were 

 payable at the time of the passing of the Acts on British 

 and Irish caught herrings, and under the prescribed rules ; 

 and it enacts that the bounties should be annually re- 

 duced as follows : for the year ending 5th July 1826, the 

 bounties were fixed to be 4s. per barrel ; 3s. per barrel for 

 the year ending 5th July 1827 ; 2s. per barrel for 1828 ; and 

 Is. per barrel for 1829, and thereafter to cease. The boun- 

 ties were also by this Act abolished on cod-fish, ling, skate, 

 &c., in the same manner and in the same series of years; 

 and also the bounties allowed by Act 43, Geo. III., c. 

 69, on salmon, full red herrings, clean shotten red herrings, 

 red sprats, pilchards, and scads, as well as tlie export boun- 

 ties on pilchards and scads, in the same proportions and in 

 the same series of years ; but, at the same time, by clause 

 eighth, all export duty on fish exported was abolished. By 

 clause ninth, it is enacted that the L.3000 per annum 

 granted by the Act 48 Geo. III., c. 110, to the Commission- 

 ers of the British Fisheries, and the L.5000 per annum 

 granted under the Act 59 Geo. III., c. 109, to the Com- 

 misioners of the Irish Fisheries, for the encouragement of 

 the Irish fisheries, shall be applied "in the encouraging and 

 assistingthe building, making, or rcpaitingofpiersor quays,'' 

 as " shall appear to the said commissioners of the fisheries 

 respectively to be most fit and necessary," and "for the re- 

 pairs of boatsof poor fishermen," "notexceedingtheamourit 

 of L.500 in any one year in Scotland and Ireland respec- 

 tively," under the sanction of the Treasury ; reports of 

 such appropriations to be annually laid before Parliament. 

 Most useful was this appropriation of the money for 

 fishing harbours, at least in Scotland. The commissioners 

 prepared a circular whicli was issued by their then secre- 



