Majesty’s _European_ dominions; and shall be in other respects qualified and subject to the same rules and restrictions as are prescribed by an act, made in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of King _William_ the third, intituled, _An act to encourage the trade to ~Newfoundland~_; and shall be fitted and cleared out from some port in _Great Britain_, or from the islands of _Guernsey_, _Jersey_, or _Alderney_, after the said first day of _January_ one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and after that day in each succeeding year, and shall proceed to the banks of _Newfoundland_; and having catched a cargo of fish upon those banks, consisting of not less than ten thousand fish by tale, shall land the same at any one of the ports on the north, the east, or the south side of the island of _Newfoundland_, between _Cape Saint John_ and _Cape Raye_, on or before the fifteenth day of _July_ in each year, and shall make one more trip, at least, to the said banks, and return with another cargo of fish catched there, to the same port: In which case, the one hundred vessels which shall first arrive at the island of _Newfoundland_, from the banks thereof, with a cargo of fish catched there, consisting of ten thousand fish by tale, at the least, and which, after landing the same at one of the ports within the limits before-mentioned in _Newfoundland_, shall proceed again to the said banks, and return to the said island with another cargo of fish, shall, if navigated with not less than twelve men each, be intitled to forty pounds each; but if any of the said one hundred vessels, so first arriving as aforesaid, shall be navigated with less than twelve men each, and not less than seven, they shall be intitled to twenty-five pounds each: Provided always, That if, in either of the cases before-mentioned, any of the one hundred vessels, so first arriving as aforesaid, shall be wholly navigated by men going out upon shares, that is to say, receiving a certain share of the profits arising from the voyage in lieu of wages, such of the said vessels as shall be so navigated by not less than twelve men each, shall be intitled to fifty pounds each; and if so navigated with a less number than twelve men, and not less than seven, shall be intitled to thirty-five pounds each. And further, that the one hundred vessels which shall next so arrive in order of time, on or before the said fifteenth day of _July_ in each year, at the said island, with a like cargo, and shall proceed again to the said banks, and return from thence in the manner herein-before mentioned, shall, if navigated with not less than twelve men each, be intitled to twenty-five pounds each; but if such one hundred vessels, so arriving as aforesaid the next in order of time, shall be navigated each with less than twelve, and not less than seven men, they shall be intitled to eighteen pounds each: Provided also, That if, in either of the cases last mentioned, any of the vessels so