Z, February 1805-June 1805

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File 25. AJCP Reel No: 3056

Content Summary:

Correspondents include: Simon Lock; B. Rotch; C.F. Greville; Owners of Ships Employed in Southern Whale Fishery.

Subjects include: Request for extension on dates of Warehousing of Goods Act 1799 c.59; Quakers settling in Milford Haven and carrying out whale fishery plus a request that an additional ship be admitted; Declaration of Fidelity for Quakers, apprentices for whaling ships; duties paid on the import of oil; number of ships and amount of their tonnage employed in the Southern Whale Fishery from 1795 to 1805; concerns over favourable treatment towards American whalers; draft of a bill for the permanent regulation of the Southern Whale Fishery; protection of apprentices until the age of 21; time allotted for payment of duty on East India goods stored in warehouses of East India Company; accounts regarding the Southern Whale Fishery with particular attention to non-British subjects; muster lists of ships employed in the Southern Whale Fishery from the Port of London.

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