Whale. Fins, Oil, and Blubber imported by Greenland Company, not liable to the Duty of 12d. charged by the said Acts.
And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Eighth and Ninth Yeares of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage upon Merchandizes imported for the Terme of Two Yeares and Three Quarters and an Additionall Land Tax for One Yeare for carrying on the War against France And by another Act made in the Ninth and Tenth Yeares of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards the raising a yearly Sum of Seaven hundred thousand Pounds for the Service of His Majesties Household and other Uses therein mentioned during His Majesties Life an additionall Duty of Twelve Pence on every Twenty Shillings Value of all Goods and Merchandizes imported (all manner of Fish English taken excepted) is granted to His Majesty His Heires and Successors And whereas some Doubt hath arisen whether Oyle Blubber and Fins taken and imported by the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland are not liable to the said Duty Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Whale Fins Oyle and Blubber taken and imported by the Ships of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland were not nor are intended to be charged or made liable to the Duty of Twelve Pence for every Twenty Shillings Value of Goods imported charged in the aforesaid Acts but that the Whale Fins Oyle and Blubber taken and imported as aforesaid and alsoe all Whale Fins Oyle and Blubber of English Fishing taken in the Seas of Newfoundland or any of the Seas belonging to any of His Majesties Plantations or Colonies and imported into this Kingdom by any of His Majesties Subjects in English Shipping were and are hereby declared to be free of the said Duties as all Fish of English taking the aforesaid Acts or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.