A commercial dictionary Volume 2; containing the present state of mercantile law, practice and custom

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...however, than 150 tons, shall be entitled to the bounty agreeable to the ship's measurement. 5. 7. ' No ship above the burden of 400 tons shall receive a larger bouuty than a ship of 400. S. 8, 10. No bounty shall be allowed to any ship where a log-book has not been properly kept.' In case any ship shall fall in with any of his majesty's ship's bf war, the master shall produce to the commanding officer of such ship of war the ship's log-book, and in case such ship shall put into a foreign port where there is a British consul or officer, the master shall produce such log-book to such British consul or officer, who shall make a memorandum, and subscribe as before. S. 11. ' The owners may insure the bounty in case of the loss of the ship. S. 13; Whale fins, oil or blubber of whales, seal oil or seal skins, or any other produce of. seals or fish caught in the seas, of. Greenland or Davis's Straits, or parts adjacent, may.be imported duty free. No articles to be imported duty free, unless the master or mate of the ship importing the same, shall first make oath before the collector and another officer of the customs, in the port of importation, that all the whale fins, oil, &c. imported, are bona fide the produce of whales' caught and taken in the Greenland seas, or Davis's Straits, or seas adjacent, by the crews of such ships, owned, fitted out, and navigated as aforesaid. S. 15. / Persons granting a false certificate for any of the purposes directed by this act, shall forfeit the sum of £500, and if any person. shall counterfeit, erase or alter any certificate, directed by this aft, or knowingly make use of any false certificate, such persons shall forfeit £500, and the certificates be of no effect. 8. 16. No harpooner, line manager, or boat steer...