. A treatise on the importance of extending the British fisheries [microform] : containing a description of the Iceland fisheries, and of the Newfoundland fishery and colony : together with remarks and propositions for the better supply of the metropolis and the interior, with cured and fresh fish; elucidating also the necessity of encouraging and supporting commerce and the general industry of the country. Fisheries; Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches; Pêches. ^22 '^: if ' â * 3 lings and eight pence the barrel, the delivery of both British and foreign salt duty free) were, dur
. A treatise on the importance of extending the British fisheries [microform] : containing a description of the Iceland fisheries, and of the Newfoundland fishery and colony : together with remarks and propositions for the better supply of the metropolis and the interior, with cured and fresh fish; elucidating also the necessity of encouraging and supporting commerce and the general industry of the country. Fisheries; Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches; Pêches. ^22 '^: if ' â * 3 lings and eight pence the barrel, the delivery of both British and foreign salt duty free) were, during the space of fourteen years, for every hundred pounds which they subscribed and paid into the stock of the society, entitled to three pounds a year, to be paid by the receiver-general of the customs, in equal half yearly payments. Besides this great company, the residence of whose governor and directors was to be in Lon- don, it was declared lawful to erect different fishing chambers in all the different out-ports of the kingdom, provided a sum, not less than ten thousand pounds was subscribed into the capital of each, to be managed at its own risk, and for its own profit and loss. The same annuity, and the same encouragements of all kinds, were given to those inferior chambers, as to that of the great company. The subscription of the great company was soon filled up, and several different fishing chambers were erected in the different out-ports of the kingdom. In spite of all these encouragements, almost all those diffe- rent companies, both great and small, lost either the whole or the greater part of their capitals -, scarce a vestige now remains of any of them, and the white herring fishery is now fai that time) entirely, or almost entirely carried on by private ; This was exactly as might have been expected,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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