# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Question ... whether
by the Act of the 10^th of Queen Ann, and other
Acts for Collecting the Duty of sixpence a
Man a Month, for the support of the Royal
Hospital at Greenwich, all the Persons above
described, employed in that Fishery, are not
liable to the payment of that duty, equally,
with those, the Masters call their sailing
Crew. ——

Answer. I think
that all the Persons before mentioned, who
are employed, either in sailing the Ships,
or Boats, or taking Fish, are liable to answer
the duties to the Hospital in proportion to the
time they serve, but such as are employed
upon the Land only in curing, and salting the
Fish, and not at all in navigating the

Vessels