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.tmct fare or'fares, of exclusive employment in the cod-fishery, previoos 

 to the last day of November. But the taking of mackerel by any ves- 

 sel under cod-fishing license, except as bait or food for her crew, is 

 regarded as a violation of the license laws. Such illegal fishery during 

 any season will forfeit all claim to bounty for that season, and -when 

 the fact is known to any collector he is instructed to refuse the allow- 

 ance hereafter accordingly. 



Vessels employed in taking any kind offish for sale and consumption 

 in a fresh or green condition, as well as fish to be preserved by pickHng, 

 are not within the bounty laws, and no voyages or fares in which such 

 fisheries are pursued can be lawfully computed as any part of the 

 period required for the allowance of bounty. 



8. When the proofs presented fully satisfy you that all the require- 

 ments and conditions herein contained have been complied with in 

 good faith, you are authorized to pny the owner or owners, or his or 

 their agent or representative, of fishing vessels, where exclusive em- 

 ployment at sea in the cod-fishery fpr four calendar months, at least, is 

 shown by the evidence herein required. 



If measuring more than five tons, and not exceeding thirty tons, 

 $3 50 per ton. 



If measuring more than thirty tons, $4 per ton. 



If the above thirty tons, with crews not less than ten persons, and 

 having been exclusively employed at sea in the cod-fishery three and 

 one-half calendar months, $3 50 per ton. 



The allowance for one vessel during the season, whatever may be 

 her tonnage, cannot exceed $360. 



9. Vessels exclusively employed at sea in the cod-fishery the full 

 time required to entitle them to bounty, and afterwards wrecked, may 

 be allowed bounty under the provisions of the act of 26th of May, 1824, 

 which requires the evidence of the loss of the vessel to be transmitted 

 to the Comptroller for his decision thereon. Under the act'of March 3, 

 1849, this duty has been transferred to the Commissioner of the Cus- 

 toms, to whom the proof, certified by the collector of the district to 

 which the vessel belonged, should be sent for his official direction 

 thereon. 



Instructions will be given in due season in regard to the mode of 

 payment of bounty allowances, at and after the close of the year. To 

 obviate any responsibility which might otherwise devolve on collectors, 

 should such payments be made u pon proof regarded as insufficient 

 under the present instructions, it will be advisable that probable claim- 

 ants to fishing-bounty allowances be apprized, before the sailing of ves- 

 sels on their first cod-fishing voyage, of the requirements of these in- 

 structions, which are intended to supersede and supply the place of all 

 former- instructions on this subject. 



THOMAS CORWIN, 



Secretary of the Treasury^ ' 



An account of the fishing grounds has been reserved for the conclu- 

 sion. Of those near our cities, and visited for the purpose of supplying 

 our markets with fish to be consumed fresh, it is unnecessary to speak. 

 Those within the limits of British America, and secured to us by 



