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.
Limits of Fisheries prescribed by 42 G. 3. c. 18. further extended.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.
Certain Apprentices protected.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.
Benefits extended to such Ships returning to Ports in Ireland.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.
Vessels, the masters of which shall have taken the Oath, by 35 G. 3. c. 92. shall not lose the Benefit of their Voyage, although the Persons on board have not taken the Oath.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.
