recovered, levied, and mitigated by any Law of Excise, or by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Effoin, Protection, Privilege, or Wager of Law, fhall be granted or allowed, nor any more than one Imparlance; and all Officers of his Majefty's Customs or Du- Officers of the ties upon Salt are hereby authorifed and Customs and impowered to feize all fuch Herrings, Sal- may feize all mon, Cod, Ling, Tufk, or any other contrary to White Fish imported, brought in, or this Act. landed, or put on board any other Ship or Boat, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act; and alfo the Cafks and Veffels in which any of the faid Species of Fifh fhall be found, Salt Duties Fish imported the Duties on into England, 13. AND be it further enacted by the Application of Authority aforefaid, That the feveral Fish imported Rates and Duties which fhall be charged from Scotland. by virtue of this Act, upon Fifh brought from Scotland, or the lflands thereunto belonging, into England, Wales, or Berwick upon Tweed, as aforefaid, fhall be levied, charged, brought in, applied, iffued, and difpofed of to the fame Purpofes, and in the fame Proportions, as the Duties upon Salt and Rock-Salt, and the Duties upon Red Herrings and White Herrings, are levied, charged, brought in, applied, iffued, and difpofed of, by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in Force. $ 14. AND $14. Cocket, or Counterfeit- 14. AND be it further enacted, That ing, &c. any if any Perfon or Perfons do prefume to counterfeit, rafe, or alter, any Certificate or Cocquet by this Act directed to be made; or shall use any fuch Certificate or Cocquet knowing the fame to be so counterfeited, rafed, or altered, fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall incur the Pains which are by Law inflicted on Perfons found guilty of Forgery. A& 5 Geo. II. ed. 15. AND be it further enacted by the in Part repeal- Authority aforefaid, That fo much of an Act paffed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act for reviving the Duties on Salt, as relates to the Importation of White Herrings from Scotland into England, be, and is hereby repealed. 2001, and One 16. AND be it further enacted by the Year's impri- Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon nalty on Per- fhall falfely make any Oath by this Act fons making a directed to be made, and fhall thereof be foument Pe falfe Oath. Penalties and legally convicted in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record in Great Britain, fuch Perfon fo guilty thall forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and be imprisoned for Twelve Months. 17. AND be it further enacted by the Forfeitures, Authority aforefaid, That the feveral Pehow to be re- nalties and Forfeitures in this Act mentioned fhall and may be profecuted and determined by Bill, Plaint, or Informa covered and applied. tion, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland respectively, wherein no Effoin, Protection, or Privilege, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed; and one Moiety of the faid Penalties and Forfeitures fhall be to the Use of his Majesty, and the other Moiety to fuch Perfon or Perfons as will fue for or profecute the fame. 18. AND to the End that no Perfon in the Highlands of Scotland, or the remote Iflands thereunto belonging, may pretend to be, or remain ignorant of these Regulations which more immediately concern them; be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Copy of this Trustees for the Fisheries and Manufac- Act to be tranfmitted to tures of Scotland fhall, as foon as may be, the Parishes tranfmit one Copy of this Act to each of in Scotland, to be read by the Minifters of the feveral Parishes with- them to the Parishioners; in the Synods of Argyle, Rofs, Moray, Sutherland, and Caithness and Orkney; and that each of the faid Minifters fhall, immediately after Divine Service, on the last Sunday of the Month of May in every Year, for Four fucceffive Years, commencing with the Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty-feven, publickly, audibly, and diftinctly, read to his Parifhioners, in the language beft understood by them, the former Part of this Act, from the and alfo by the Judges at their Circuit Courts. the Beginning thereof to Conclufion of the Third enacting Clause; and also, that the Judges of Scotland fhall order the faid Part of this Act to be publickly, audibly, and diftinctly read, at the opening of each Circuit Court to be held at Inverary and Inverness every Year, for Four Years fucceffively, beginning in the Year One' thoufand feven hundred and fifty-feven. $ 19. AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Action or Suit fhall be commenced against any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done in purfuance of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants in any fuch Action or Suit General Iffue. may plead the general Iffue, and give this Act, and the Special Matter, in Evidence, at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the fame was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act: And if it fhall appear fo to have been done, the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fhall be non-fuited, or difcontinue his or their Actions, after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared, or if Judgement fhall be given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants Treble Cofts. fhall and may recover Treble Cofts, and have the like Remedy for the fame as any Defendant or Defendants have in other Cafes by Law. [N° III.] Anno vicefimo octavo GEORGII II. Regis Cap. 14. An Act for further explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual, an Act made in the Twenty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the BritishWhite Herring Fishery; and for giving further Encouragement for the carrying on the faid Fifbery; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. I. ·W HEREAS by an At made in the Preamble, re 23 Geo. II. Twenty-third Year of the Reign citing the At of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the British White Herring Fifbery, after impowering His Ma jefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, by Letters-Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to incorporate fundry Persons in the faid Act named, and fuch other Bodies and Perfons as in the faid Act are mentioned, to be One Body politick and corporate, by the Name of The Society of the Free British Fishery, for the Purpofe *(E) of |