[Sidenote: 26 _Geo._ III, cap. 41, recited. After _Jan. 1, 1790_ ships to be intitled to the bounties granted by the recited act, that shall sail by _April 10_, yearly, tho’ they leave the _Greenland seas_ or _Davis’s streights_ before _Aug. 10_ following, and shall not be laden agreeable to the regulations of the recited act, upon the conditions herein specified.] 2. And whereas it is thought expedient that the owners of ships employed in the _Greenland_ fishery should be allowed to receive the bounty granted by an act, passed in the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled, _An act for the further support and encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the ~Greenland Seas~ and ~Davis’s Streights~_, although such ships depart from those seas before the tenth day of _August_ then following, and although they be not laden with the quantity of whale fins, and of oil or blubber in proportion thereto, required by the said act, in case it shall appear by the log books of such ships that they have not departed from those seas till the end of sixteen weeks from the day they respectively sailed from the ports where they were surveyed and cleared out; be it therefore further enacted, That any owner or owners of any ship or vessel shall be allowed and intitled to receive the bounty granted by the said act, for any ship which shall have proceeded, or shall proceed upon the said whale fishery from any port of _Great Britain_, or the islands of _Guernsey_, _Jersey_, or _Man_, after the first day of _January_ one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and shall have sailed, or shall sail from the port where she was surveyed and cleared out, directly on her intended voyage on or before the tenth day of _April_ in each and every year, although she shall depart from the _Greenland_ seas or _Davis’s streights_, or the adjacent seas, before the tenth day of _August_ then following, and although she shall not be laden, if of the burthen of three hundred tons, with thirty tons of oil, or blubber in proportion thereto, the blubber to be rated with respect to the oil as three to two, and one ton and a half of whale fins; or if she be of greater or lesser burthen, with a quantity of oil or blubber and whale fins in like proportion to the tonnage of such ship, being the produce of one or more whale or whales, caught by the crew thereof, or with the assistance of the crew of some other licensed ship, in case it shall appear by the log book of such ship that she had continued with her crew in the said seas, diligently endeavouring to catch whales or other creatures living in those seas, and did not depart from thence till the expiration of sixteen weeks from the time of her sailing from the port where she shall have been surveyed and cleared out; provided such ship shall not have touched at any other port during her voyage, and shall have complied with all the other regulations, conditions, and restrictions, imposed by the said act.