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" Secondly, the bounty to the white-herring fishery is a tonnage bounty; and is proportioned to the burden of the ship, not to her diligence or success in the fishery; and it has, I am afraid, been too common for vessels to fit out for the sole purpose... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 284
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1811 - 538 pages
...the sole purpose of catching, not the fish but the bounty. In the year 1759, when the bounty was at fifty shillings the ton, the whole buss-fishery of Scotland, brought in only four barrels of sea sticks. In that year, each barrel of sea sticks cost government, in bounties alone, LI 13, 15s.;...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 9-10

1813 - 1102 pages
...is not the best stimulus to exertion ; but we by no means agree with him, that vessels will befitted out for the sole purpose of catching, not the fish,...the whole buss-fishery of Scotland brought in only Jour barrels of herrings; so that each barrel of merchantable herrings in that year cost the government,...
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General Report of the Agricultural State: And Political ..., Volume 2

Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1814 - 492 pages
...diligence or success in the fishery, has, it is to be feared, made it too com. mon for vessels to fit out for the sole purpose of catching — not the fish, but the bounty. And accordingly, in 1759, when the bounty was so high as 50s. per ton, he states the whole buss fishery...
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A Review of the Domestic Fisheries of Great Britain and Ireland

Robert Fraser - 1818 - 324 pages
...its diligence or success in the fishing, it was alleged it had been too common for the vessels to fit out for the sole purpose of catching, not the fish, but the bounty. It is proved that this was practised to so impudent an extent, that, in one year, each merchantable...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 4

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 754 pages
...the diligence or success of the trader, but to the burden of the ship, and vessels are in consequence fitted out ' for the sole purpose of catching not the fish, ' but the bounty.'* This is very similar to the working of a Church-extension scheme. Upon the same principle, this great...
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The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 9

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 558 pages
...will only protect him in it." As- to the herring fisheries of Scotland he says : "Vessels often fit out for the sole purpose of catching, not the fish, but the bounty. In the year 1750, when the bounty was at 150 shifHngs the ton, the whole buss fishery of Scotland brought...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...her diligence or success in the fishery ; and it has, I am afraid, been too common for vessels to fit out for the sole purpose of catching, not the fish, but the bounty. In the year 1 759, when the bounty was at fifty shillings the ton, the whole buss fishery of Scotland...
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Trade and Tariffs

John Mackinnon Robertson - 1908 - 352 pages
...burden of the ship, not to her diligence or success in the fishery" ; whereupon, naturally, vessels were fitted out "for the sole purpose of catching not the fish but the bounty. In the year 1759, when the bounty was at 50s. the ton, the whole buss fishery of Scotland brought in...
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Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives, Volume 38

Australia. Parliament - 1908 - 1386 pages
...her diligence or success in the fishery ; and it has, I am afraid, been too common for vessels to fit out for the sole purpose of catching not the fish but the bounty. In the year 1759, when the bounty was at 505. the ton, the whole buss fishery of Scotland brought in...
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The Economic Review, Volume 22

1912 - 500 pages
...Adam Smith said that bounties for the encouragement of herring and other fisheries caused vessels to be fitted out for the sole purpose of catching " not the fish but the bounty." This has not been Japan's experience. She has lost no opportunity of encouraging the growth of industries...
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