490 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Sec. V. And be it further resolved, That the joint resolution of 3rd April, 1846, rela- 
tive to brandies, wines, and other spirituous liquors shall be understood and is hereby 
interpreted to mean as follows: The permits to trade or barter, given to vessels 
engaged in the whale fishery, do not and shall not include the trade, sale, landing, 
or disposal of spirituous liquors, but all such traffic on the part of said vessels shall 
be and is hereby construed to constitute them merchantmen, and shall subject them, 
within the meaning of said joint resolution, to the payment of 20 cents per ton ton- 
nage dues, as well at the anchorage of Lahaina and the roadstead of Honolulu as at 
anchor in the harbor of Honolulu, and to all other legal liabilities. 
Sec. VI. Relates to fees for various kinds of general licenses. 
Sec. VII. Relates to the breaking up of hulks. 
Sec. VIII. And be it further resolved, That from and after the proclamation hereof 
as aforesaid no clearance shall be given by any collector of customs to any foreign 
vessels at any port in this Kingdom where there is or shall be a consul, vice-consul, 
or commercial agent, or vice commercial agent of the nation to which such vessel 
belongs until the master or commander of such vessel shall produce to said collector 
a certificate under the seal of his consul that all legal charges and demands in his 
office against said vessel have been paid and that he knows of no reason why said 
vessel should not iminediately depart; and that in ports where no such consul, vice- 
consul, or commercial agent, or vice commercial agent may exist the local collector 
shall otherwise satisfy himself that all proper and legal charges have been paid 
before granting a clearance to any foreign vessel. 
Sec. IX. And be it further resolved by the authority aforesaid, Tnat from and after 
the proclamation hereof in manner aforesaid, all, each, and every, the provisionsvof 
the foregoing eight resolutions shall be considered, received, taken, and construed 
to be amendments to the existing laws of this Kingdom, and that they be substituted 
instead of any such laws at conflict therewith, which existing laws, so far as the 
same are found to be so at conflict, are and shall be hereby repealed. 
The effect of this law was to make all the ports free ports. 
Section 8 of the above act was repealed on May 26, 1853. 
The following act regulating the duties on the products of the whale 
fishery was approved July 27, 1852: 
Section 1. All oil, bone, and other products of the sea taken by an Hawaiian ves- 
sel may be imported into this Kingdom free of duty, but the same shall be entered 
and permitted at the custom-house in the same manner as goods liable to 5 per cent 
ad valorem duty. 
Sec. 2. All oil, bone, and other products of the whale fishery imported into this 
Kingdom in any foreign vessel, or being the product of any foreign vessel and sold 
or landed, shall be considered to haye been imported for consumption, and shall be 
liable to the duty of 5 per cent ad valorem and not entitled to any drawback for 
reexporting unless the same shall have been stored in the custom-house stores or 
under the direction of the collector of customs. 
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after its passage. 
As the remitting of the pilot dues was quite a serious drain on the 
financial resources of the Government, they were reimposed in 1850. 
On August 16, 1854, however, all tonnage dues on whalers, foreign 
and domestic, were abolished. 
The usual custom was for the whalers to make two cruises each year. 
The first, or spring season, was from January 1 to about June 14, the 
second, or fall season, beginning about July 27 and ending about 
October 10. The intervening time was employed in refitting for the 
