64 REPORT OF AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE COMMISSION.

term of four months, at the least, of the fishing season, next preceding, which season
 is accounted to be from the last day of February to the last day in November in
every year, for each and every ton of such vessel’s burthen according to her admeasurement
 as licensed or enrolled, if of twenty tons and not exceeding thirty tons, one
and one-half dollars, and if above thirty tons two and an half dollars, of which allowance
 aforesaid three-eighths parts shall accrue and belong to the owner of such fishing
vessel, and the other five-eighths thereof shall be divided by him, his agent or lawful
representative, to and among the several fishermen who shall have been employed
in such vessel during the season aforesaid, or a part thereof, as the case may be, in
such proportions as the fish they shall respectively have taken may bear to the whole
juantity of fish taken on board such vessel during such season: Provided, That the
allowance aforesaid on any one vessel, for one season. shall not exceed one hundred
and seventy dollars.
(By the act of July 8, 1797, the bounties to fishing vessels were increased 33% per
sent, to take effect on Januarv 1, 1798.)

{July 29, 1813, Thirteenth Congress, first session, chapter 35.]

AN ACT Laying a duty on imported salt; granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allow.
ances to certain vessels emploved in the fisheries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of January next a duty of
twenty cents per bushel shall be laid, imposed, and collected upon all:salt imported
from any foreign port or place into the United States. In calculating the said duty
every fifty-six pounds of salt shall be computed as equal to one bushel. And the
said duty shall be collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as
other duties laid on the importation of foreign goods, wares, and merchandise into
the United States: Provided, That drawback shall in no case be allowed, and the
‘erm of credit for the payment of duties shall be-nine months.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on all pickled fish of the fisheries of the
United States, exported therefrom subsequent to the last day of December, eighteen
aundred and fourteen, there shall be allowed and paid a bounty of twenty cents per
oarrel, to be paid by the collector of the district from which the same shall be so
sxported, without any deduction or abatement: Provided always, That in order to
entitle the exporter or exporters of such pickled fish to the benefit of such bounty or
allowance, the said exporter or exporters shall make entry with the collector and
naval officer of the district from whence the said pickled fish are intended to be
exported; and shall specify in such entry the names of the master and vessel in which
and the place where such fish are intended to be exported, together with the particular
 quantity; and proof shall be made to the satisfaction of the collector of the
district from which such pickled fish are intended to be exported, and of the naval
officer thereof, if any, that the same are of the fisheries of the United States; and no
entry shall be received as aforesaid of any pickled fish which have not been inspected
and marked pursuant to the inspection laws of the respective States where inspection
laws are in force in regard to any pickled fish, and the casks containing such fish
shall be branded with the words ‘for bounty,” with the name of the inspector or
packer, the species and quality of the fish contained therein, and the name of the port
of exportation; and the collector of such district shall, together with the naval officer,
where there is one, grant an order or permit for the inspector to examine the
pickled fish as expressed in such entry, and if they correspond therewith, and the
said officer is fully satisfied that they are of the fisheries of the United States, to
lade the same, agreeably to such entry, on board the ship or vessel therein expressed;
which lading shall be performed under the superintendence of the officer examining
the same, who shall make returns of the quantity and quality of pickled fish so laden
on board, in virtue of such order or permit, to the officer or officers granting the same.
And the said exporter or exporters, when the lading is completed, and after returns
thereof have been made as above directed, shall make oath or affirmation that the
pickled fish expressed in such entry, and then actually laden on board the ship or
vessel as therein expressed, are truly and bona fide of the fisheries of the United States,
shat they are truly intended to be exported as therein spegified, and are not intended
to be relanded within the limits of the United States; and shall also give bond in double
the amount of the bounty or allowance to be received, with one or more sureties to the
satisfaction of the collector of the port or place from which the said pickled fish are