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1062 51 GEORGII III. Cap. XXXIV. An act for continuing the Premiums allowed to Ships employed in the Southern Whale Fishery. [25th May 1811.]

HREAS it is proper to encourage the Fishery carried on by His M ajesty's European Subjects in the Seas to the Southward of the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, for the Purpose of taking Whales and other Creatures being in those Seas, by continuing certain Premiums granted in an Act passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled ,"An Act for further encouraging the Southern Whale Fisheries;" be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authoity of the same, That the several Premiums herein-after mentioned, shall be paid and allowed to Sixteen Ships or Vessels employed in the said Fishery, under the Limitations, Restrictions, and Regulations contained in the said Act, and also in an Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, and mentioned in the said Act, and under the Limitations, Restrictions, and Regulations, expressed in this present Act.

II. And be it further enacted, That for Eight of such Ships or Vessels which shall be so fitted and cleared out between the First Day of January and the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twelve, and between the First Day of January and the Thirty first Day of December in each the Two succeeding Years; and shall sail to the Southward of the Equator, and there carry on the Fishery, and shall return before the First Day of December in the Year subsequent to that in which they cleared out, to some Port in Great Britain, there shall be paid and allowed Three hundred Pounds to each of the Eight such Ships which shall so sail and first arrive within the Times herein-before mentioned, with the greatest Quantity of Oil or Head Matter taken together, being not less in the Whole than Twenty Tons, in each of such Ships or Vessels, and being the Produce of One or more Whale or Whales or other Creatures being in those Seas, taken and killed by the Crews of every such Ship or Vessel respectively

III. And be it further enacted, That for Four other such Ships or Vessels which shall be fitted or cleared out, and Shall sail within the Time herein-before mentioned, and proceed to the Southward or Thirty-six Degrees of South Latitude, and shall there boná fide carry on the said Fishery, and shall not return until after the Expiration of Fourteen Calendar Months from the Day on which they cleared out, but before the Thirty-first Day of December in the Second Y ear after the clearing out, to some Port in Great Britain, there shall be paid and allowed Four hundred Pounds to each of such Ships or Vessels which shall so sail and arrive within the Time herein-before last mentioned, with the greatest Quantity of Oil and Head Matter taken together, being not less in the Whole than Twenty Tons, and being the Produce of any Whale or Whales or other Creatures being in those Seas, and taken and killed by the Crew of such Ship or V essel.

IV. And be it further enacted, That for Ten other such Ships or Vessels which shall be so fitted and cleared out between the First Day of January and the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twelve, and between the First Day of January and the Thirty first Day of December in each of the Two succeeding Years, and shall double Cape Horn, or pass through the Streights of Magellan into the South Seas, and carry on the said Fishery during the Space of Four Months to the Westward of Cape Horn in those Seas, or shall double The Cape of Good Hope, and carry on the said Fishery during the Space of Four Months to the Eastward of One hundred and five Degrees of East Longitude from London, and shall not return to some Port of Great Britain till after the Expiration of Sixteen Calendar Months from the Day on which they cleared out, but before the Thirty-first Day of December in the Second Year after their clearing out, there shall be paid and allowed Six hundred Pounds to any One of such Ships or Vessels which Shall so sail and arrive within the Times herein last-mentioned with the greatest Quantity of Oil and Head Matter taken together, being not less in the Whole than Thirty Tons, and being the Produce of any Whale or Whales or other Creatures being in those Seas, and taken and killed by the Crew of such Ship or Vessel in the said Voyage, either Outward or Homeward; and there shall be paid and allowed Five hundred Pounds to each of Nine of such Ships and Vessels last before mentioned, which shall so sail and arrive within the Times herein last before mentioned, with the next greatest Quantity of Oil and Head Matter taken together, being not less in