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 A. D. 1763. Anno quarto Georgii III. C. 22. 169 cap. xxi r. An Aft for continuing feveral Acts of Parliament made for the Encouragement of the Whale Fifhery carried on by his Majefty's Subjects. ' ^X/HERE AS divers Adts of Parliament have been made for the Encouragement of his Ma- Preamble, ' W jefty's Subjects to carry on and improve the Whale Fifhery, which, by the Bounties given ' by the laid Adts, did, till checked by the late War, greatly increafe, and, by the Continuance ' thereof, will ftill further increnfe, to the great Advantage of the Trade and Navigation of thefe ' Kingdoms ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's moll: Excellent Majefty, by and with the Ad- vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament Aa5Geo,2. c. 28. aflembled, and bv the Authority of the fame, That an Adt made in the fifth Year of the Reign of which was continued b y his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Ad for encouraging the Greenland Fijhery, ™ etaX ^iequeiu Art, which was to continue in force for nine Years from the twenty-fif h Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one ; and which Adt, by an Adt of Parliament made in the thirteenth Year '3 Geo. %. c.iS. of his laid late Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Ait for continuing feveral Laws therein mentioned relating to the Premiums upon the Importation of Majls, 7~ards and Boivfprits, Tar, Pitch and Turpentine ; to Bri- tith made Sail Cloth, and the Duties payable on Foreign Sail Cloth ; to the Greenland, and to the Whale Fijhery ; for granting a further Bounty for all Ships employed in the Whale FiJJiery during the prefent War ; for exempting Harpooners and others employed in the Greenland Fijhery Trade, from being imprefied; and 'for (riving further Time for the Payment of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indentures and Contrasts of "Clerks and Apprentices ; was continued unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hun- dred and fifty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; and which Adt, bv an Adt of Parliament made in the twenty-fecond Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, intituled, iz Geo. 2. c. 4.5. An ASifor the further Encouragement and Enlargement of the Whale Fijherf, andfor continuing fuch Laivs as are therein mentioned relating thereto ; and for the Naturalization of fuch Foreign Proteflants as jliall ferve, for the Time therein mentioned, on board fitch Ships as J/ja/l be fitted out for the faid Fijhery, was fur- ther continued unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and firty-feven, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; and which Adt, by an Adt of Parliament made in the twenty-eighth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Acl for ^ Gc0 - -• <■• a0 - continuing, explaining and amending the feveral Acls of Parliament made for the further Encouragement of the Whale Fijhery carried on by his Majejlys Subjects, and to authorize the Payment of the Bounty to Tho- mas Hood and others, upon three Ships fitted out for the faid Fijhery, and lojl in the Greenland Seas, was further continued unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fixty- four, and from thence to the End of- the then next Seffion of Parliament ; (hall be, and the fame is further continued to z< hereby further continued, from the Time in the faid laft-mentioned Adt limited for the Expiration Dec - *7 6 7- thereof, unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-feven, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That an Adt made in the fixth Year of Aft . 6 G f°- *• f - 33. the Reign of his faid late Majefty, intituled, An Act for the further Encouragement of the Whale Fijhery t™™&£i^Z~ carried on by his Majefty's Subjects, which was to be in force during the Continuance of the Adt of c ^ the fifth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act for encouraging^ the Greenland Fijhery ; and which was, by the faid Adt of the thirteenth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, continued unto the faid twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fifty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; and which Act was, by the faid Adt of the twenty- fecond Year of his (aid late Majefty's Reign, continued unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-feven, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Par- liament; and which Adt was, by the faid Adt of the twenty-eighth Year of his faid l'ate .Majefty's Reign, further continued unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-four, and from thence to theEnd of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; fhall be and the fame further continued 1025 is hereby further continued, from the Time in the faid laft mentioned Act limited for the Expiration Dec> I 7*7 > thereof, unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand kven hundred and fixty-feven, and from thence to theEnd of the then next Seffion of Parliament. ] Ye the 1 turalization of fu as Jhall b fitted out for the faid Fijhery, which was to be in force from the twenty-ninth Day of Sep timber one thouf.nd feven hundred and forty-nine, until the twenty-fifth Day of December one thou- fand feven hundred and fifty-feven, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parlia- ment ; and which was, by the faid Adt of the twenty-eighth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, continued unto the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and lixty-four, and from thence to theEnd of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; (hall be and the fame is hereby fur- further continued to 25 t'.ier continued, from the Time in the faid laft mentioned Adt limited for the Expiration thereof, unto Dec - 1 7 6 •'• the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-feven, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. 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