An Act for continuing the several laws therein mentioned, relating to the premiums upon the importation of masts, yards, and bow-sprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine; to British made sail cloth, and the duties payable on foreign sail cloth; to the Greenland, and to the whale fishery; for granting a further bounty for all ships employed in the whale fishery during the present war; for exempting harponers and others employed in the Greenland fishery trade, from being impressed; and for giving further time for the payment of duties omitted to be paid for the indentures and contracts of clerks and apprentices.
Great Britain.
[London : printed by John Baskett,
1740]
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno decimo tertio Georgii II. Regis.' - Text in black letter.
Last word of first line of text: 'after'; first word of line below initial: 'and'; last word of last full line of text: 'to'. -Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis .. decimo tertio. At the Parliament begun .. the fourteenth day of January, anno. Dom. 1734. .. And from thence continued .. to the fifteenth day of November, 1739. being the sixth session of this present Parliament.' - Imprint from general titlepage.
Signed on first leaf of text: 6Z2; press fig. c on p.551.
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