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That no Customer, Collector of his Majesty's Customs, Comptroller, Receiver of Entries of Ships, Surveyor, or Searcher, Waiter, or other Officer whatsoever, of or concerning the said Customs for the time being, or their or any of their Deputies or Clerks, at any Port, Harbour, Road, Creek, Haven, or Place, within either of the said Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, where any such Ship or other Vessel, liable as aforesaid, shall set sail or arrive, shall at any Time hereafter give or make out, or cause, permit, or suffer, to be given or made out, any Docket or other Discharge whatsoever; or receive or take any Entry or Docket, or give any Certificate, Return Bills, or other Discharge whatsoever, respectively; or permit any goods or stores to be laid on Land, or discharged or shipped out from or on any of the said ships or other vessels; or suffer any ship or other vessel, either British, Irish, or Stranger, liable or subject to the payment of any of the said Tolls or Duties, to pass by or from them or any of them, until a Receipt, Ticket, or Note be produced, under the Hand of the Collector to be authorised by the said Corporation, their Successors or Assigns, to collect the said Tolls or Duties at such Port or other place where such ship or other vessel shall set forth or arrive, testifying the payment of the said Tolls or Duties for or in respect of such ship or other vessel.

III. Provided always nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed, deemed, or taken to extend, to charge or make liable any Person or Persons with or to the payment of any of the said Tolls or Duties, any longer than the said Light-house shall continue to be supported, and a Light exhibited thereon during the night season, or for or in respect of any ship or vessel taking in or loading any Coals or Culm, in any place lying in Bride's Bay, and carrying the same to any Port or Place within the Principality of Wales, or in carrying Lime-stones from one port or place to another.

IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That certain letters Patent, under the Seal of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, bearing Date the fifth day of August, in the fifteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, containing a Grant unto John Phillips, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, of the said Rocks called The Smalls; also Liberty, License, Power, and Authority, of erecting, supporting, and maintaining, a Light-house or Light-houses, Beacon or Beacons, in or upon the said Rocks, and to collect and take certain Duties, in the same Letters Patent mentioned, for the term of fifty years from the date thereof; and all the estate, right, title, term of years, powers, and authorities derived, or which can or may be claimed, or pretended to be derived, under or by virtue of the same Letters Patent, and every matter, clause, and thing therein contained, shall, and the same are hereby enacted and declared to be, from and immediately after the passing of this present Act, null, void, and of none effect, to all intents and purposes

whatsoever.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Rocks called The Smalls shall, and the same are hereby enacted and declared to be, by virtue of this present Act, from and immediately after the passing thereof, vested in the said Master, Wardens, and Assistants, and their successors and assigns for ever, for the purpose of erecting, supporting, and maintaining the said Light

house; subject nevertheless to the payment to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, of the clear yearly rent or sum of five pounds of lawful money of Great Britain; which said rent of five pounds shall be paid into the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, or into the hands of his Majesty's Receiver-General of South Wales for the time being, by four equal quarterly payments, at or upon the Feast Days or times in every year herein next after mentioned; (that is to say) The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Michael the Archangel, and the Birth of our Lord Christ; the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said Feast Days as shall next happen after the passing of this present Act.

VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any action or suit shall be brought or commenced against any Person or Persons, for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, every such action or suit shall be brought or commenced within six Calendar months next after the Fact committed, and not afterwards,

and shall be laid and brought in the County or City where 554 the Cause of such action or suit shall arise, and not elsewhere;

and shall not be removed by Certiorari, or any other Writ or Process whatsoever; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence upon any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act: And if it shall appear to have been so done, or any such action or suit shall be brought after the time so limited for bringing the same, or shall be brought in any County or Place otherwise than as aforesaid, then, and in any such Case, the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuit, or suffer a Discontinuance of his, her, or their Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if a Verdict shall pass against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, or if upon Demurrer or otherwise Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Treble Costs of Suit, and shall have such Remedy for recovering the same, as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have for Costs of Suit in any other Cases by Law.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be taken and allowed, in all Courts of Law or Equity within the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, as a public Act; and all Judges and Justices are hereby required to take Notice thereof as such, without specially pleading the same.

No. 21.-1782: British Statute, 22 Geo. III, Cap. 46.

An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a Peace or Truce with certain Colonies in North America therein mentioned.

"Whereas it is essential to the interests, welfare, and prosperity of Great Britain, and of the colonies or plantations of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower counties on Delaware, Mary

land, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, in North America, that peace, intercourse, trade, and commerce, should be restored between them: Wherefore, and for a full manifestation of the earnest wish and desire of His Majesty and his Parliament to put an end to the calamities of war," be it 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 it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty to treat, consult of, agree, and conclude, with any commissioner or commissioners, named or to be named by the said colonies or plantations, or any of them respectively, or with any body or bodies corporate or politic, or any assembly or assemblies, or description of men, or any person or persons whatsoever, a peace or a truce with the said colonies or plantations, or any of them, or any part or parts thereof; any law, Act or Acts of Parliament, matter, or thing, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

II. "And, in order to obviate any impediment, obstacle, or delay, to the carrying the intentions of his Majesty and his Parliament into effect, which might arise from any Act or Acts of Parliament affecting or relating to the said colonies or plantations," be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That, for the concluding and establishing of a peace or truce with the said colonies or plantations, or any of them, His Majesty shall have full power and authority, by virtue of this Act, by his letters patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to repeal, annul, and make void, or to suspend, for any time or times, the operation and effect of any Act or Acts of Parliament which relate to the said colonies or plantations, or any of them, so far as the same do relate to them, or any of them, or any part or parts thereof, or any clause, provision, or matter therein contained, so far as such clauses, provisions, or matters relate to the said colonies, or plantations, or any of them, or any part or parts thereof.

III. And be it further enacted, that this Act, as to the exercise of the powers and authorities hereby given to His Majesty, shall continue to be in full force until the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.

No. 22.-1785, July 25: Order providing for regulation of fishery at Bay of Chaleur.

GEORGE R. Additional instruction to our trusty and well-beloved Frederick Haldimand Esqr. our Captain General and Governor in Chief of our province of Quebec in America, or to the Commander in Chief of the said province for the time being. Given at our Court at St. James's the twenty fifth day of July 1785, In the twenty fifth year of our reign.

Whereas it will be for the general benefit of our subjects carrying on the fishery in the Bay of Chaleur, in our province of Quebec, that such part of the beach and shore of the said Bay, as is ungranted, should be reserved to us, our heirs and successors; it is therefore our will and pleasure that you do not in future direct any survey to be made, or grant passed for any part of the

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ungranted beach or shore of the said Bay of Chaleur, except such parts thereof, as by our Orders in Council dated the 29th of June, and 21st of July 1785, are directed to be granted to John Shoolbred of London, Merchant, and Messrs. Robin Pipon and Company, of the Island of Jersey, Merchants, but that the same be reserved to us, our heirs and successors, together with a sufficient quantity of woodland adjoining thereto necessary for the purpose of carrying on the fishery; the limits of such wood-land so to be reserved, to be determined upon and ascertained by you and our Council for our said province of Quebec, in such manner, as from the most authentic information shall appear to you and them most convenient and proper for that purpose; It is nevertheless our intention, and we do hereby signify to you our will and pleasure, that the free use of such beach or shore, and of the wood-lands so to be reserved, shall be allowed by you, or any person authorised by you, to such of our subjects as shall resort thither for the purpose of carrying on the fishery, in such proportions as the number of shallops, he or they shall respectively employ may require; provided, that if any fisherman who shall have permission to occupy any part of the said beach or shore and woodland for the purpose of the said fishery, shall not during any one season, continue so to occupy and employ any part of the said beach and shore and wood-lands so allotted to him, you or any person authorized by you as above, may and shall allow the use of such part to any other fisherman, who shall apply for the same, for the purpose of carrying on the fishery.

And whereas it may be necessary to establish local regulations to prevent abuses, as well as disputes and misunderstanding between the fishermen resorting to the said beach or shore, it is our will and pleasure, that you by and with the advice and consent of our said council, do frame such regulations as to you shall appear necessary to answer those salutary purposes, and transmit the same to Us through one of our principal Secretaries of State for our pleasure therein by the first opportunity.

No. 23.-1786: British Statute, 26 Geo. III, Cap. 26.

G. R.

AN Act to amend and render more effectual the several laws now in force for encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland and Parts adjacent, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions in Europe; and for granting Bounties, for a limited time, on certain Terms and Conditions.

"Whereas the Bounties granted to a certain Number of Vessels employed in the British Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, by an Act passed in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions in Europe; and for securing the Return of the Fishermen, Sailors, and others employed in the said Fisheries, to the Ports thereof at the End of the Fishing Season, will expire on the First Day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven: And whereas, at the Expiration thereof, it is expedient that new Bounties should be granted, for a limited Time, under certain Conditions, Limitations, and Restrictions: And whereas it has been found by Experience, that several 92909°-S. Doc. 870, 61-3, vol á– -7

of the Provisions and Regulations contained in the Laws now in force for encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland, and Parts adjacent, are insufficient to answer the good Purposes thereby intended, and that it is requisite that other Provisions and Regulations should be enacted:" To that End, 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 first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, the respective Bounties herein-after mentioned shall be paid and allowed annually, for ten Years, to a certain number of Ships or Vessels employed in the British Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, under the Limitations and Restrictions herein-after expressed; that is to say, That such Vessels shall appear by their Register to be British-built, and wholly owned by His Majesty's subjects residing in Great Britain, Ireland, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man; and shall be navigated each with a Master, and at least three Fourths of the Mariners being British subjects, usually residing in his Majesty's European Dominions; and shall be in other Respects qualified and subject to the same Rules and Restrictions as are prescribed by an Act, made in the tenth and eleventh years of the Reign of King WILLIAM the Third, intituled, An Act to encourage the Trade to Newfoundland; and shall be fitted and cleared out from some Port in Great Britain, or from the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Alderney, after the said first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and after that Day in each succeeding Year, and shall proceed to the Banks of Newfoundland; and having catched a Cargo of Fish upon those Banks, consisting of not less than ten thousand Fish by Tale, shall land the same at any one of the Ports on the North, the East, or the South Side of the Island of Newfoundland, between Cape Saint John and Cape Raye, on or before the fifteenth Day of July in each Year, and shall make one more trip, at least, to the said Banks, and return with another cargo of Fish catched there, to the same Port: In which Case, the one hundred vessels which shall first arrive at the Island of Newfoundland from the Banks thereof, with a Cargo of Fish catched there, consisting of ten thousand Fish by Tale, at the least; and which, after landing the

same at one of the Ports within the Limits before mentioned 556 in Newfoundland, shall proceed again to the said Banks, and

return to the said Island with another Cargo of Fish, shall, if navigated with not less than twelve men each, be intitled to forty Pounds each; but if any of the said one hundred vessels, so first arriving as aforesaid, shall be navigated with less than twelve Men each, and not less than seven, they shall be intitled to twenty-five Pounds each: Provided always, That if, in either of the Cases before mentioned, any of the one hundred vessels, so first arriving as aforesaid, shall be wholly navigated by men going out upon shares; that is to say, receiving a certain Share of the profits arising from the Voyage in lieu of Wages, such of the said Vessels as shall be so navigated by not less than twelve Men each, shall be intitled to fifty Pounds each; and if so navigated with a less Number than twelve Men, and not less than seven, shall be intitled to thirty-five Pounds each. And further, that the one hundred Vessels which shall next so arrive in order of Time, on or before the said fifteenth Day of

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