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A. D. 1713. Anno duodecimo Ann^ Reginte. Slat. 2. 615 CAP. I. An Aft for granting an Aid to her Majefty, to be raifed by a Land-Tax in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen. EXP. zs. in the Pound. CAP. II. An A61 for allowing a Drawback upon the Exportation of Salt, to be made ufe of for the Curing of Firti taken at North Seas, or at Iflehnd. kERE AS the Fiftiing for Cod in the North Seas, and at IJleland, gives great Employment to the Navio-ation of this Kingdom, and breeds up great Numbers of hardy and induftrious Mariners for Defence of The Realm, and Improvement of Commerce ; and whereas the faid Fifhing Trade cannot be fo efFeftually carried on, unlcfs Salt for curing Cod taken there, may be had free of Exxife ; For the Prefervation therefore, and Incouragement of the laid Trade,' Be it enaded by the Queen's mofV Excel- lent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in , this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That the Mafter of any Boat or i^^.^'^j '„ Veflel bound on a fifhing Voyage to the North Seas, or Ijleland, may take on Board his faid Boat or Ve/Tel, the North Seas, in any Port of Great Britain, iuch Quantities^ of Britijh Salt, as he fhall judge proper and necelTary for fi:c. may take ' his faid Voyage, fuch Mafter paying or giving Security to pay the Duties due and payable for the ^"""1 Salt on fame ; which Money fhall be repaid, or Security fliall be difcharged, in fuch Manner as is herein after ?°"'; 8"'"s .' . ' '^ Sectiniv to pay mentioned. ,he Duties. 5 TV. & M. c. J. -j^ %W. 3. c. 31. 9 &' I o Af'. <:. 6 Sf 44. 10 Js? > I W. 3. c. 22. 1 Ann. fiat. i. c, 21. 1 £f 3 Am. c. 14, 4 Am. c. 12. 5 Ann. c. 29, 6 Ann. c. 12. 9 Ann. c. 23. n. And be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That the Officer of the Place where the faid Salt was Officer where made, and the Duties thereof paid, or fecured to be paid, fhall, upon Demand, deliver gratis to fuch •'^'^ Salt was Mafter of the Veflel, a Certificate, under his Hand and Seal, of the particular Quantity of Saltftilpped on "^^eVeMaL Board his Veflel for the North Seas, or IJleland, and that the Duties on fuch Salt have been paid or fecured f Certificate oT to be paid. _ _ the Quantiy III. And be it enadled by the Authority aforefaid. That Codfifh, Ling or Hake, which have been caught flipped. and cured at the North Seas, or at IJleland, may be imported and landed, fo as Oath be firft made before Codfifh, &c. may the Landing thereof, by the Owner or Proprietor of fuch Fifti, or the Mafter of the Veflel, before the Of- ^^ imported, on ficer for the faid Duties in the Port or Place where fuch Fifh {hall be imported, brought in, or landed, ^eam^f.^ f (who is hereby impowered and required to adminifter the fame, without Fee or Charge) That all the Fifia NortTscar&c" fo imported came from the North Seas, or IJleland, and were caught and cured there, and fo as the faid and foastheFifli Fifli be, at the Landing thereof, and before the fame be reinoved from the Shore, tendred to the Officer of ^e tendrcdtothe the Port for the faid Duties, to have Part of the Tail of every fuch Codfifli, Ling or Hake, cut off, that '^'^^" °'^'^"= no Allowance for fuch Fifli be obtained upon Expoitation; and the faid Officer is hereby impowered and part"f 'h'^t^'I required to cut ofi^ Part of the Tail of all fuch Fifh on the Importation thereof; and in Cafe any fuch Fifh cut oft". Ihall be landed before the fame ftiall be tendred to the Officer, to have Part of the Tail cut off, as aforefaid, fjo, ia„(jed be- all the Fifti fo landed fhall be forfeited, and double the Value thereof, to be recovered of the Importer or fore fo tendred. Proprietor thereof. fiiall be forfeited, IV. And be it enadfed by the Authority aforefaid, That if any of the Salt fo niade ufe of in curing of Foul Salttobe Fifti fhall remain, fuch foul Salt ftiall be thrown over Board and deftroyed, in the Prefence of the Officer thrown over for the Salt-Duties for fuch Port, before the Colleftor fhall fign his Certificate. Board. V. And be it enadted by the Authority aforefaid. That if it ftiall happen, that any of the Salt fo taken Salt notuAd, on Board for curing of Fiih, fliall not have been ufed for that Purpofe, it fhall and may be lawful to and f^ay be relanded, for the Mafter of fuch Ship or Veffel to land the faid Salt, fo as an Entry be made thereof within ten "o ^,^ =>" Entry be Days after his coming into any Port in Great Britain that he fhall arrive at, and the Duties paid down for ""^"^ ^"^f- the fame, before fuch Salt, or any Part thereof, fhall be landed or taken out of any fuch Ship or Veflel : And if fuch Mafter ftiall neglect or refufe to enter fuch Salt, in fuch Port where he fhall firft arrive, and Mafter neoleft- pay down the Duties for the fame v/ithin the faid ten Days (except in Cafe of his being driven into any '"? '0 <^nter the Port, or detained there W Strefs of Weather or contrary Winds, or other unavoidable Neceffities) then ^ " ^ '"'= and in fuch Cafe all the Salt on Board fuch Ship or Veflel fliall be forfeited, and double the Value thereof, d^uul'tu"! to be recovered of the Owner or Proprietor of fuch Fifli, or the Mafter of the Veflel, or the Perfon com- w. ' "^ manding the fame in that Voyage. VI. And be it enaded, by the Authority aforefaid. That the Mafter of fuch Boat or Veffel, upon pro • On producing a ducing to the Colledtor of the Salt-Duties for the Port where he imports his Fifli, fuch Certificate of the '->rtificareofthe Qiiantity of Salt taken on Board, and that the Duties of it were paid or fecured to be paid, and making Qi!"^"? t-'kcn Oath before the faid Colleftor, of the particular Quantity of the Salt in fuch Certificate mentioned, that j^tf'"^'!',^/^* was made ufe of in curing of Codfifti, Ling or Hake,_ caught and cured at the North Sea, or at Ifleland, made of how Slid that the faid Fifli have been all marked, as aforefaid, that there may be no Allowance obtained 'for the tr-.uch v-as ufed fame upon Exportation (which Oath the faid Colleftor is hereby impowered and required to adminiiter "' '-'""B' &c. without Fee or Charge) fliall receive ^rfl/Zj from the laid Collector a Certificate of the fame, which, toge- 'f'^ Security si- ther with a Certificate of Payment of the Duty of the Remainder of the Sale taken in for that Voyage, if m"n't°of"f " *d" lh"re ftiall be any Pvemainder, (wiiich Certificate he fhall alfo receive ^r(?//j^ biing produced to the Col- ties .iiaii be difl Icdor of the Salt-Duties for the Place where the Duties on the faid Salt were paid or fecured to be paid, ciurgej, and the fuch Collcilor fliall