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Rh 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.

V. And whereas it is expedient to encourage the said Fisheries by extending the Limits prescribed for the same in an Act passed in the Forty-second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Premiums allowed to Ships employed in and for enlarging the Limits of the Southern Whale Fishery be it further enacted, That it shall a nd may be lawful for any Ship or Vessel fitting and clearing out, and licensed conformably to the said Act passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, and sailing to the Eastward of The Cape of Good Hope for the Purpose aforesaid and having passed beyond One hundred and Fifteen Degrees of East Longitude from London, to sail or pass to the Northward as far as Ten Degrees of Northern Latitude, but no further to the Northward until such Ship or Vessel shall have sailed or passed to the Eastward of One hundred and eighty Degrees of East Longitude from London; any Thing in the said Act passed in the Forty-second Year of His present Majesty's Reign to the contrary notwithstanding.

VI. And be it further enacted. That any Apprentice belonging to any Ship or Vessel fitted out on the said Fishery, who shall not have completed Two Voyages, and whose Age shall not exceed Twenty-one Years, shall not be impressed from the said Service; and Special Protections shall be issued by the Lords, Commissioners of the Admiralty to protect such Apprentices from, being impressed in to His Majesty's Service.

VII. And be it further en acted. That all Ships which shall clear out for the Southern Whale Fishery, and shall return to any Port in Ireland with a Cargo of Oil, the Produce of the said Fishery, wthin the Period limited by this Act, shall be intitled to all the Benefits and Advantages arising from Bounties, Remission of Duties, or otherwise, granted by the, said recited; Acts of the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-eighth Years of His present Majesty, in the like Manner and to the same Extent as if such Ships had returned to any Port in Great Britain.

VIII. And whereas it may have happened that in some Instances the Provisions In an Act of the Thirty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Southern Whale Fisheries," requiring that such of the Foreigners as have formed or may form a Part of the Crews of Ships employed in the Southern Whale Fishery may not have taken the Oath of Allegiance, and made the Declaration there by required; be it therefore enacted, That no Ship or Vessel that has already, sailed on the said Fishery, the Master of which has taken the Oath or made the Declaration required by the said Act, shall lose the Benefit of such Voyage by reason that all or any of the other Persons employed in navigating the Said Ship Or Ves­sel shall not have taken the said Oath or made the said Declaration.

51 GEORGII III. Cap. XLIV. An Act for imposing an additional Duty on Linen imported into Great Britain during the Continuance the present War, and for Six Months after the Ratfication of a DfinitiveTreaty of Peace. [31st May 1811.]

HEREAS it is expedient that an additional Duty of Customs should be imposed on Foreign Linen imported into Great Britain; 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 Authority of the same, That, from and after the Thirtieth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and eleven, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, an additional Duty of Customs on all Linen imported or brought into Great Britain from Parts beyond the Seas, of whatever Description the same may be, equal in Amount to the Temporary or War Duty already charged and payable on the like Articles, according as the sail Duties are severally and respectively described and set forth in Figures as Temporary or War Duties in the Schedule marked (A.)