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Regulations respecting Examination and Certificate of Officers, and branding Casks of Herrings, &c. for Bounty.
Debenture or Certificate for Bounty to be given, on complying with Conditions.
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XXI. And be it further enacted, That the said Bounties per Barrel hereby granted on Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, shall be payable and paid to the Curer or Curers thereof, on the Production of the Fish to the proper Officer of the Fishery, in order to be branded and certified for the County; and on the same being duly examined and certified in manner following, that is to say, such Officer of the Fishery, to whom any Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel shall be so produced, shall examine the Barrels, and inspect the Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel contained in all, or in such and so many of them as he in his Discretion shall think necessary, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel so produced, are in every respect such as to entitle the Curer or Curers thereof to the Bounty hereby granted, according to the Provisions of this Act; and for that Purpose the said Curer or Curers shall, at his or their own Charge, upon being thereunto required by the said Officer, place or cause to be placed the said Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel in such convenient Order or Situation as shall be pointed out by the said Officer, (the Outsides being free from any Tar, Dirt or other Substance which may cover or conceal any Mark thereon,) and open or cause to be opened any Barrel so produced, and raise or remove, or cause to be raised or removed, the Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, or any Part thereof, out of such Barrel, and furnish the said Officer with Weights and Scales for weighing any Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, and assist him effectually in weighing the same; and upon every Barrel of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel which on such Examination and Inspection as aforesaid, shall be found by the said Officer to be in all respects such as to entitle the Curer or Curers thereof to the Bounties per Barrel hereby granted, there shall be branded with an hot Iron, by order and in presence of the said Officer, such Mark or Marks, Character or Characters, as the Commissioners of the Irish Fisheries shall direct, and which shall denote whether the same is bungpacked or repacked, and the Year in which the same shall be so branded, and the Officer in whose presence the same shall have been branded; all which being duly performed, the said Officer of the Fishery shall give the Curer or Curers of the said Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, a Debenture or Certificate for the Payment of the said Bounties per Barrel, on the Number of Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, so branded, which, on being allowed by the Commissioners of the Irish Fisheries, (such Allowance being stated in Writing under the Hands of the Commissioners or any Three of them, at the Foot of the said Debenture or Certificate,) the said Curer or Curers, or his or their Assigns, shall be entitled to the respective Bounties per Barrel on the Number of Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel therein contained; and the Commissioners of Customs and Port Duties, upon such Debenture being produced to them, shall without Delay cause the same to be paid.
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