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to pay the same the original agreement or agreements which may have been made
with the fishermen employed on board such vessel as is hereinbefore required, and
also a certificate, to be by him or them subscribed, therein mentioning the particular
days on which such vessel sailed and returned on the several voyages or fares she
may have made in the preceding fishing season, to the truth of which he or they
shall swear or affirm before the collector aforesaid.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel of 20 tons or upward,
employed as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the allowance granted by this act unless
the skipper or master thereof shall, before he proceeds on any fishing voyage, make
an agreement, in writing or in print, with every fisherman employed therein, according
 to the provisions of the act entitled ““An’act for the government of persons in
certain fisheries.”
Src. 9. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall make any false declaration
 in any oath or affirmation required by this act, being duly convicted thereof in
any court of the United States having jurisdiction of such offense, shall be deemed
guilty of willful and corrupt perjury, and shall be punished accordingly.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the
termination of the war in which the United States are now engaged with the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and for one year
thereafter, and no longer.
Approved, July 29, 1813.
The above act was continued by act of February 9, 1816.
Amended, March 3. 1819.

AN ACT in addition to and alteration of an act entitled “An act laying a duty on imported salt,
Tipine a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the
fisheries.”
[Fifteenth Congress. second session, chapter 88.1

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
 in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act there shall be
paid, on the last day of December, annually, to the owner of every fishing boat or
vessel, or his agent, by the collector of the district where such boat or vessel may
belong, that shall be qualified agreeably to law for carrying on the bank and other
cod fisheries, and that shall actually have been employed therein at sea for the term
of four months at least of the fishing season next preceding, which season is
accounted to be from the last day of February to the last day of November in every
year, for each and every ton of such boat’s or vessel’s burden, according to her admeasurement
 as licensed or enrolled, if of more than 5 tons and not exceeding 30 tons,
$3.50; if above 30 tons, $4, and if above 30 tons and having had a crew of not less
than ten persons, and having been actually employed in the cod fishery at sea for
the term of three and one-half months at the least, but less than four months, of the
season aforesaid, $3.50: Provided, That the allowance aforesaid on any one vessel
for one season shall not exceed $360. .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such parts of the fifth and sixth sections of
the act hereby amended as are contrary to the provisions of this act be, and the
same are hereby, repealed.
Anproved March 23 1R10.

SEC. 6 of an act reducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes. (Chapter 74, Twenty-ninth
Congress. firat sesgion Julv 30 1R46 Y

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of December
next, in lieu of the bounty heretofore authorized by law to be paid on the exportation
 of pickled fish of the fisheries of the United States, there shall be allowed on
the exportation thereof, if cured with foreign salt, a drawback equal in amount to
the duty paid on the salt, and no more, to be ascertained under such regulations as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, July 30, 1846.

SEC. 4, chapter 298, Laws of 1866, Thirty-ninth Congress. first session.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws allowing fishing
bounties to vessels hereafter licensed to engage in the fisheries be. and the same are