Bounties of faid bounty fhall be demanded, shall be branded, in the fight of the officer of the customs, with an hot iron, in fuch legible and lafting marks or characters as the commiffioners of the customs shall direct, and as may effectually distinguish the cafks or packages containing herrings landed from buffes or veffels intitled to the faid bounty on the tonnage thereof, from such as contain herrings landed from boats or veffels not intitled to fuch bounty on the tonnage. XIII. And be it further enacted, That the said several and per barrel to respective bounties of four fhillings, and one fhilling, for every be paid as the barrel of herrings imported by any fuch bufs, veffel, or boat bounty of 20s. respectively, as aforefaid, fhall be paid and payable by such and per ton. tween June 1, the fame perfon or perfons and in fuch and the fame manner as the faid bounty of twenty fhillings per ton fhall be paid or payable by and under, and by virtue and according to the true intent and meaning of this act, upon a debenture or certificate to be prepared and granted by the collector or comptroller of the customs in the port were the fish, in respect whereof the faid bounty fhall be payable, fhall be entered, and to be verified by the perfon executing the office of fearcher in fuch port. XIV. And, for the encouragement of the fishery ufually called The Deep Sea Fishery, on the north and north-east coasts of this kingTo veffels em- dom; be it enacted, That from and after the faid firft day of ployed in The June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-feven, for the Deep Sea Fishery, addi. space of feven years, and from thence to the end of the then tional prenext feffion of parliament, over and befides the feveral bounties miums to be herein-before granted, there fhall be payable and paid the fevepaid, viz. for ral premiums or fums following; (that is to fay), For the the greatest quantity of greatest quantity of herrings which shall be caught by the crew herrings im- of any one bufs or veffel, the owner or owners whereof, in reported in one fpect of fuch bufs or veffel, fhall be intitled to the said several veffel, bebounties of twenty fhillings per ton, and four fhillings, and one and Nov. 31, fhilling per barrel, herein-before granted, respectively, and 80 guineas; which fhall be imported or brought in, by fuch buss or vessel, between the first day of June and the thirty-first day of November, in any one year, the premium or fum of eighty guineas; and for the next greatest quantity of herrings, which fhall be so caught, imported, and brought in as aforefaid, the premium or fum of fixty guineas; and for the next greatest quantity of herrings which thall be fo caught, imported, and brought in as aforefaid, the premium or fum of forty guineas; and for the next greatest quantity of herrings which fhall be fo caught, imported, and brought in as aforefaid, the premium or fum of twenty guineas; each of which faid feveral premiums or fums shall be payable and paid at any time or times after the thirtyfirst day of November in every year, by fuch and the fame perfon, and in fuch and the fame manner, as the faid bounty of twenty fhillings per ton upon the bufs or veffel, the owner or owners whereof in respect of such ship or veffel (hall be intitled to fuch premium or fum, fhall be paid or payable under or by virtue and according to the true intent, and meaning of this act, for the next for the next, 40; for the next, 20. upon 、 upon a debenture or certificate to be prepared and granted by the collector or comptroller of the customs in the port where the fish in respect whereof the fame fhall be payable fhall be entered, and to be verified by the perfon executing the office of fearcher in fuch port. XV. And whereas it is highly expedient, as well for the purpose of encouraging the fisheries by an extenfion of the market, as for that of providing a cheap and wholesome article of food for the support of the poor, that all duties now payable by law on fuch herrings, cod, ling, and falmon, or other fin caught and cured by British fubjects, as are removed for home confumption, except as herein-after is mentioned, fhould ceafe and determine; be it therefore enacted, That, Duties now from and after the said first day of June, one thousand seven payable on fith caught hundred and eighty-feven, all duties, now payable by virtue of any act or acts heretofore made, and now in force, for or in home conrespect of such herrings, cod, ling, hake, and falmon, or other fumption to white fish, caught and cured by British subjects, as fhall be re- ceafe on June moved for home confumption (fave only and except fuch 1, 1787. equalizing duties as are by this act exprefsly granted or directed to be continued on falmon, cod, ling, hake, tufk, and other white fish, cured with falt for which the duty hath been paid, and which shall be imported into England from Scotland), fhall cease and determine. and cured for XVI. And whereas, by an act passed in the fifth year of the reign 5 Geo. I. c. of his late majesty King George the First, intituled, An act for re- 18, recited. covering the credit of the British fishery in foreign parts, and better fecuring the duties on falt, the feveral bounties, rates, or Jums therein and herein-after expreffed, were granted and made payable for all fuch fish therein and herein-after mentioned, as should be exported from any port or place in Great Britain, into parts beyond the feas; (that is to fay), For every hundred of cod fish, ling, or hake, except dried cod fish, ling, or bake, (commonly called Haberdine), which should contain in length fourteen inches or upwards, from the bone in the fin to the third joint in the tail, five fillings; and for every hundred weight of dried cod fish, ling, or bake, (commonly called Haberdine), three fillings: and whereas the distinction between the dried cod called Haberdine, and dried cod not fo called, is found to be useless, inafinuch as little less than the whole quantity of dried cod exported, during the last thirty years, hath been shipped as haberdine, and as it also appears that the value of cod in fome of the foreign markets is much diminfhed by that degree of dryness, which gives it the denomination of haberdine; be it therefore further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this act, for all fuch dried For fuch fish cod, ling, or hake, as under and by virtue of the faid act, of as heretofore the fifth year of the reign of his faid late majefty King George would have been intitled the Firft, or any fubfequent act or acts, would (in cafe this act to 53. per had not been made) have been intitled to the faid bounty of hundred five fhillings per hundred thereby granted, there fhall be pay- weight on able and paid the rate or fum of three fhillings per hundred exportation, weight, in such and the fame manner, in every refpect, as the no more than 38. to be paid. Fff 3 faid If after Oct. 1, 1786, fish be packed in casks, not branded with the curers names, to be forfeited. After June 1, 1787, the faves of bar white herrings are packed for exportation must be half an inch thick, and full bound, or for feited. Perfons who feamen or faid bounty, rate, or fum of three fhillings by the faid act granted for every hundred weight of dried cod fish, ling, or hake, commonly called Haberdine, is or fhall be payable by force or virtue thereof; and the faid bounty of five fhillings per hundred shall henceforth be difcontinued and repealed, and be no longer paid or payable; any thing in the faid act of the fifth year of the reign of his faid late majefty King George the Firft, or any other act or acts, to the contrary notwithstanding. XVII. And be it further enacted, That on all barrels and cafks in which any fish whatsoever (except fresh fish) shall, from and after the first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-fix, be packed or put up, either for exportation or home confumption, the respective names of the curers of such fish shall be marked and burnt with iron, in fair, large, legible, confpicuous and permanent characters; and that every barrel or cask in which any fish (except freth fish) fhall, from and after the time aforefaid, be packed or put up, and which fhall not have the name of the curer thereof marked and burnt as aforesaid, fhall and may be feized and fecured, by any officer or officers of his Majefty's customs; and upon due proof of the fact being made, on oath, before any one of his Majesty's juftices of the peace, every fuch barrel or cask fhall, together with the fish therein contained, be forfeited and loft. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That the ftaves of every barrel, in which any white herrings or wet white fifh fhall, from and after the faid firft day of June, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-feven, be packed or put up for exportation, shall not be of a less thickness at the bulge than half an inch, and that every fuch barrel fhall be full bound, and that every barrel in which fuch fifh fhall be fo packed or put up, and which fhall be found to be of lefs thickness than as aforefaid, or not full bound, fhall and may be seized and fecured by any officer or officers of his Majefty's customs; and upon due proof of the fact being made, on oath, before any one of his Majefty's juftices of the peace, fhall, together with the fish therein contained, be forfeited and loft. XIX. And, for the better encouragement of the fisheries, be it further enacted, That every perfon who fhall, for the space of seven fucceffive years, have followed the occupation of a feaman or fisherman, on board of any fhip or veffel employed in the fisheries of Great Britain, (being a married man), may fet up and exercise any fuch trade as he is apt and able for, in any town or place within the kingdom of Great Britain, without any let, fuit, or moleftation of any perfon or perfons whomsoever, for or by reafon of the using of fuch trade, as freely, and with the fame provifions, and under the fame regulations, and with the like exception in respect to the two universities of that part of Great Britain called England, as any mariner or foldier may do, by virtue of an act paffed in the twenty-fecond year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An An act to enable fuch officers, mariners, and foldiers, as have been in bis Majesty's fervice fince his acceffion to the throne, to exercife trades. may be XX. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the Fish cured paffing of this act, it shall and may be lawful to and for with British any falt perfon or perfons to carry, from any port or place in the united kingdom of Great Britain, to any other port or place in the faid one port to exported from united kingdom, for home confumption, any red herrings or another in the white herrings, or any falmon, cod, ling, tuik, or other white united kingfish, cured with salt, made in any part of Great Britain. dom for home con fumption, XXI. And whereas the falt, ufed in the cure of falmon, cod, ling, hake, tusk, and other white fish, taken on the coafts of this kingdom, and removed for home confumption, (Save only for the cure of ling and bake, taken by the crews of veffels employed in the white herring fishery during their continuance at fea), is fubject to the payment of the falt duties; and, by reason fuch duties are confiderably lefs in Scotland than in England, it is just and necessary that a duty should be paid upon the importation into England, for home confumption, of cod, ling, bake, falmon, and other white fifb, cured in Scotland with home-made falt, for which the duties payable in Scotland for home-made falt have been there paid or fecured, in order to make the faid duties payable in Scotland on home-made falt used in the curing of fuch fish, equal to the duties payable on home-made falt ufed in England in the cure of fuch fish for home confumption; be it therefore further enacted, That the feveral rates and duties, which Duties payby an act made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late able by 29 majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for encouraging Geo. 2. c. 23. the fisheries in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, are made tation of fish on the imporpayable on the importation into England, of falmon, cod, ling, cured with tusk, and other white fith, cured with falt made in Scotland, for falt made in which the duty hath been there paid or fecured, shall be conScotland, to tinued, and the fame or the like rates and duties fhall, from to imported and after the paffing of this act, be extended to, and fhall be fish cured with paid and payable for, all falmon, cod, ling, hake, tufk, and salt made in other white fith, brought from Scotland into any port or place any part of in England for home confumption, cured in Scotland with falt and the reguGreat Britain, made in any part of Great Britain, for which the duty hath lations of that been paid or secured; and that the feveral provifions, regula- act extended tions, and restrictions, in the faid act contained or thereby pre- to this. fcribed, for the entry and clearance of fuch falmon, cod, ling, hake, tufk, and other white fish, cured with falt made in Scotland, and for the importation and removal thereof, and for the payment and fecuring the duties thereby granted in respect thereof, and the feveral penalties thereby inflicted for any breach, difobedience, or non-obfervance of the faid provifions and regulations, fhall be observed, performed, and enforced, in respect to the rates and duties hereby granted, in the fame manner as if the fame were here repeated and re-enacted, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. be extended XXII. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the Fish may be pa ffing carried from Fff4 one port to another in exportation, paffing of this act, it shall and may be lawful to and for any perfon or persons to carry from any port or place in the faid united kingdom of Great Britain, to any other port or place on oath being in the faid united kingdom, for exportation to foreign parts, made that any red herrings or white herrings, or any falmon, cod, ling, they were tusk, or other white fish, the owner of the fish, or master of the caught in Britain, and car- veffel, making oath before the chief officer of the customs, or ed with home- his deputy (who is hereby required to adminifter the fame), made falt. that fuch fish were caught in Great Britain, or on the coast thereof, and cured with falt delivered duty-free from fome part of the faid united kingdom of Great Britain, and when and where, and to whom the faid falt was fo delivered. the bounties c. 18, and to Fish fo Bounties on England to in England, XXIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no allowance or bounty upon fuch exportation to foreign parts as aforefaid, of any red herrings, white herrings, falmon, cod, ling, tufk, or other white fish, fo brought or carried coaftwife from any port or place in that part of Great Britain called England, to any port or place in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, thall be paid in that part of Great Britain called Scotland; but that the chief officer of the customs, or his deputy, at the port or place from which fuch fifh fhall be fo exported to foreign parts, fall, upon the request of the perfon or perfons exporting the fame, and oath made before the faid chief officer or his deputy (who are hereby respectively empowered to adminifter the fame) of the fhipping of the faid fish, and its not being relanded, or intended to be relanded, in Great Britain, give a debenture under his hand, without delay, fee, or reward, for payment of the faid allowances or bounties; which debenture being produced to the commiffioners of the customs, in that part of Great Britain called England, fhall entitle the exporter of fuch fish, or his affigns, to the payinent.of the allowances or bounties granted by the faid recited act of the fifth year of King George the First; and the faid commiffioners are hereby required |