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
except as herein-after is provided, before the expiration of the term for
which he or they shall be bound, every such master or other person shall
forfeit and pay, for each and every offence, the sum of fifty pounds; to
be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of
his Majesty’s courts of record, in which no wager of law, no essoin, nor
any more than one imparlance, shall be allowed.
6. Provided nevertheless, That nothing herein contained shall extend,
or be construed to extend, to inflict the aforesaid penalty in any case
where any apprentice or apprentices shall be legally discharged before
a magistrate or justice of the peace, or shall be turned over from one
person to another person, concerned in either of the aforesaid fisheries,
to serve the remainder of his time in such fisheries, pursuant to the
directions of the said acts herein-before recited.
[Sidenote: No premium to be paid under the recited acts, unless the names
of the ships on board which apprentices are bound to serve, be inserted
in the indentures.]
7. Provided also, and it is hereby declared, That no bounty or premium
shall be paid or allowed by virtue of the said recited acts, or either
of them, in any case, unless there shall be inserted in the indenture
or indentures of each and every apprentice or apprentices, who shall be
indentured by virtue of the said recited acts, or either of them, or who
shall be turned over from one person to another, pursuant to this act,
the name or names of the ship or vessel, or ships or vessels, on board of
which such apprentice or apprentices is or are bound to serve.
[Sidenote: This act not to extend to ships cleared out, and which shall
have sailed, before the commencement thereof.]
8. Provided also, That nothing in this act shall extend, or be construed
to extend, to take away any bounty or premium which may become due by
virtue of the said recited acts, or either of them, in any case where the
ship or vessel shall have _bona fide_ cleared out on the fishery, and
proceeded from _Great Britain_, before the commencement of this act.
31 GEO. III. Cap. 29.
_An act for establishing a court of civil jurisdiction in the
island of ~Newfoundland~, for a limited time._
[Sidenote: Preamble. 15 _Geo._ III, cap. 31, and 26 _Geo._ III, cap. 26,
recited. His Majesty may constitute a court of civil jurisdiction at
_Newfoundland_, &c.]
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