21. And whereas the bounties given by an act of parliament made in the eleventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, _An act for the better support and establishment of the ~Greenland~ and whale fisheries_, have been found of great advantage to the navigation, trade, and manufactures of this kingdom; and it is just and expedient that the like bounties which are granted by that act to ships fitted out from _Great Britain_, or any of his Majesty’s dominions in _America_, for those fisheries, should, in like manner, be granted to ships fitted out for that purpose from the kingdom of _Ireland_; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That, from and after the twenty-fifth day of _December_ one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, the respective bounties herein-after mentioned shall be allowed for every ship or vessel _British_-built, and owned by his Majesty’s subjects of _Ireland_, and whereof the captain or master and at least one-third of the mariners are his Majesty’s subjects of _Great Britain_ or _Ireland_, which shall proceed from any port in the said kingdom of _Ireland_, within the time limited by this act on the whale fishery to the _Greenland_ seas, and _Davis’s Streights_, and the adjacent seas, under the several rules and restrictions, herein-after expressed; that is to say, every such ship or vessel, before she proceeds on such voyage, shall be visited by the proper officer or officers of the customs belonging to such port, who shall examine into such ship or vessel, and take an account of the tonnage thereof by admeasurement, and shall certify such his or their visitation, examination, and admeasurement, to the commissioners of his Majesty’s revenue in _Ireland_; and if it appears by the certificate of such officer or officers that she hath on board such a number of men, provisions, boats, fishing lines, and instruments to be used in such fishery as herein-after are mentioned; that she is strongly built, and otherwise a proper ship for such voyage and fishery, and hath on board among her crew a sufficient number of harpooners, steersmen, and line-managers, who have been before employed in such voyages, (the names of such persons to be contained in such certificate); and if it further appears by the oath of one or more owner or owners, and of the master or chief officer of such ship, written at the foot of such certificate, and made before the collector or comptroller of such port, (who are hereby impowered and required to administer the same), that it is really and truly their firm purpose and determined resolution, that such ship shall, as soon as licence shall be granted, forthwith proceed, so manned, furnished, and accoutered, on a voyage to the _Greenland_ Seas, or _Davis’s Streights_, or the seas adjacent, and there, in the then approaching season, to use the utmost endeavours of themselves and their ship’s company to take whales, or other creatures living in the sea,