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Conditions on which such Vessels shall obtain Bounty, as to Residence of Owners, Quantity of Salt on board, Registry, &c.
Form of Certificate to be transmitted to Commissioners by Officer as to Fitness of Vessel for the Fishery.
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II. And be it further enacted, That no such Vessel shall be entitled to the said Bounty, or any Part thereof, unless such Vessel or Vessels shall be of British or Irish Built, or be a Prize Vessel legally condemned in any of His Majesty's Courts of Admiralty, nor unless such Vessel shall be owned by Subjects having their known and settled Place of Residence for themselves and Families in Ireland, for Six Months at least previous to their sailing, for the purpose of fishing and curing Fish as aforesaid; and if such Vessel shall be entered or intended for the Herring Fishery, such Vessel shall have on board, barrelled up in new Barrels, Sixteen Bushels of Salt for every Twelve Barrels of Fish which such Vessel is capable of containing; and if such Vessel shall be entered for the White Fishery, then such Vessel shall have on board Nine Tons of Salt for the first Fifteen Tons which such Vessel shall measure, and one additional Ton of Salt for every Six Tons which such Vessel shall measure above Fifteen Tons; nor shall such Vessel be entitled to the Bounty aforesaid, unless registered with the Collector or other Chief Officer of the Port to which such Vessel shall belong, if for the Herring Fishery, between the First Day of June and the Twenty fifth Day of December, and if for the White Fishery, on or before the Twenty fifth Day of March, in each and every Year, and shall proceed without Delay to such Place of general Rendezvous as shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Irish Fisheries to be appointed in manner hereinafter mentioned, and shall continue to fish for Three Months from the Time of commencing to fish, after Arrival at the Place of Rendezvous, or until such Vessel shall have taken and cured a full Cargo of such Fish; and the Collector or other Chief Officer of such Port as aforesaid, or such other Officer as shall be appointed for that Purpose, shall take an Account of the Admeasurement of such Vessel in the Mode prescribed for the Admeasurement of Vessels, by the Acts now in force for the Prevention of Smuggling in Great Britain and Ireland; and such Officer shall transmit to the said Commissioners of Fisheries a Certificate in Manner and Form following; viz.
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‘I do hereby certify, That I have been on board the Vessel called The whereof is Master, now lying in this Port, and bound to the Fisheries; and upon a strict Examination and Admeasurement, do find her to be a decked Vessel, built in that Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called of the Burden of Tons; that her Owners do to the best of my Belief reside in this Kingdom; that she is in all respects, according to my Judgment and Belief, a sound, well built, well found and proper Vessel to be employed in the said Fisheries, and has also the Quantity of Salt on board specified in this Act: Dimensions of the above Vessel; viz. in Length, in Breadth, making Tons.’
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