History of the government of the island of Newfoundland: With an appendix containing the Acts of Parliament made respecting the trade and fisheryReeves, John
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History of the government of the island of Newfoundland: With an appendix containing the Acts of Parliament made respecting the trade and fishery
Reeves, John
Fisheries -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Newfoundland, Island of; Newfoundland, Island of (N.L.) -- Politics and government
[Sidenote: Number of mariners belonging to each vessel to be inserted in
the certificate of qualification.]
2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in each and
every certificate of a ship being duly qualified as aforesaid to proceed
on the said fishery, there shall be inserted the real number of the
mariners then belonging to such vessel, and intended to be employed in
the said fishery, distinguishing how many of them are new or green men,
and whether they are hired upon shares, or are to receive wages; which
facts are to be verified on the oath of the master of the vessel, made or
taken before the person who shall grant the said certificate, and who is
hereby authorised and required to administer the same, and to insert such
facts in such certificate; and if such vessels shall be cleared out from
the said islands of _Guernsey_, _Jersey_, or _Alderney_, then such oath
shall be taken before a magistrate of the royal court, in the presence of
the principal officer of the customs who shall grant such certificate,
the whole to be attested by the governor of each of the said islands
respectively; on failure whereof, such vessels shall be excluded from the
benefit of this act, and shall not be intitled to or receive any of the
bounties herein-before granted.
[Sidenote: Certificates given and affidavits taken in _Newfoundland_,
when to be transmitted to the governor.]
3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
several certificates to be given and affidavits taken in _Newfoundland_
as aforesaid, in order to satisfy the said governor of the said island,
as to the facts to ground his certificate thereupon, as herein-before
directed, for the payment of the said bounties, shall and are hereby
required, within the district of _Saint John’s_ in the said island
of _Newfoundland_, to be transmitted to the said governor at _Saint
John’s_, before the fifteenth day of _September_ in each year, and
within any other district in the said island before the thirtieth day of
_September_ in each year, in order that he may perfectly examine the
documents, and thoroughly investigate the same, so as to be able clearly
and justly to settle the times of the arrivals as aforesaid of the
several and respective vessels, and adjust the different bounties, and to
whom they are and ought severally to be paid.
[Sidenote: Masters of vessels, previous to receiving the bounties, to
make oath relative to the number of their men returned.]
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