4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every master of a vessel, entitled to any of the bounties herein-before granted, shall, before he shall receive the same, or any part thereof, make oath before the collector and comptroller, or other chief officer at the port in _Great Britain_ where he shall arrive on his return from the said fishery upon the banks of _Newfoundland_, that all the men belonging to his ship who sailed out with him, or a number of men equal thereto, are returned to _Great Britain_, unless any of his crew shall have died at _Newfoundland_, or in the said voyage, either on the passage out or return home, or have deserted without his knowledge or consent, or have been shipped in or on board _British_ vessels bound for foreign markets; which facts shall also be verified on oath by every such master, before the said officers or officer of the customs, who are respectively hereby authorised and required to administer the same. [Sidenote: What proportion of their wages shall be advanced to green men during the time of their service.] 5. And whereas, by the said recited act, made in the fifteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, it is enacted, That no hirer or employer shall pay or advance to any seaman or fisherman, or either of them, during the time he shall be in his service, more than half the wages which shall at any time be due to him: And whereas, in the case of green men, the advance of one half of the wages may not always be sufficient to fit them out and clothe them for the season; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the hirer or employer of any such green men engaged in the said fishery, to advance to any such green man, during the time he shall be in his service, a sum not exceeding five pounds, ten shillings, although the same shall amount to more than one half of the wages which shall be due to him, provided a sum equal to the then current price of a man’s passage home, not exceeding forty shillings for each man, be reserved to bear the charge of his return home, as directed by the said before recited act of the fifteenth year of his present Majesty’s reign. [Sidenote: Penalty on seamen, _etc._ absenting themselves from or neglecting their employ.]