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No Boundy to be allowed to any Vessel employed in the Whale Fishery, but on certain Conditions.
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II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Bounty shall be allowed or paid for any Ship which, from and after the said first Day of August one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, shall be fitted out and employed in the Whale Fishery, in pursuance of this Act, unless the whole and entire Property of such Ship or Vessel shall belong to some of his Majesty's Subjects residing in that Part of his Majesty's Dominions from whence such Ship or Vessel shall be respectively fitted and cleared out, nor to any Ship which shall be so fitted out and employed in the said Fishery, in pursuance of this Act, or the said recited Act made in the last Session of Parliament, unless such Ship shall have on board an Apprentice, indentured for the Space of three Years at the least, for every fifty Tons Burthen of such Ship, every such Apprentice not exceeding the Age of eighteen Years, nor being under fourteen, at the Time he shall be so indentured; any Thing in the said recited Act, or in this Act, or any Custom or Usage, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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