[Sidenote: 28 _Geo._ III, cap. 20, recited, and after passing this act the three ships entitled to the bounties thereby granted on doubling _Cape Horn_, or passing through the _Streights_ of _Magellan_ to be entitled thereto, if they shall not return in less than 16 months, and by _Dec. 10_, in the second year after clearing out.] 3. And whereas by an act passed in the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled, _An act for amending an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign_, for the encouragement of the southern whale fishery, _and for making further provisions for that purpose_, the three ships or vessels, which are intitled to the premiums therein granted on their doubling _Cape Horn_, or passing through the _Streights_ of _Magellan_, are required not to return in less time than eighteen months, and it is thought sufficient that such ships or vessels should be obliged to continue out no longer than sixteen months; be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the owner or owners of such of the said three ships or vessels which shall sail after the passing this act, shall be intitled to the said additional premiums, granted by the said act of the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty’s reign, under the conditions, regulations, and restrictions, in the said act mentioned, in case such ships or vessels shall not return in less time than sixteen months, from the time of her clearing out, and on or before the first day of _December_, in the second year after that in which such ship or vessel shall have fitted and cleared out. [Sidenote: Owners of vessels complying with the other conditions of the recited acts, to be entitled to the premiums, tho’ they do not clear out specially for the latitudes therein specified.] 4. And whereas doubts have arisen whether the owner of any ship or vessel shall be intitled to the premiums granted by the said last mentioned acts passed in the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth years of his present Majesty’s reign, unless such ship or vessel shall have cleared out specially for the respective latitudes therein specified; be it further declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the owner or owners of any ship or vessel shall not be obliged to clear out specially for the respective latitudes specified in the said acts, but shall be intitled to the premiums thereby granted, on complying with all the other conditions, regulations, and restrictions, imposed by the said acts. [Sidenote: 26 _Geo._ III, cap. 41. 26 _Geo._ III, cap. 50, and 28 _Geo._ III, cap. 20, recited. After _Jan. 1, 1790_, any master permitting an apprentice, indentured pursuant to the recited acts, to quit his service before the expiration of his term, to forfeit 50_l._; unless such apprentice be discharged before a magistrate, or turned over to another master, in the said fisheries.]