Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Shipping Subsidies
The first direct bounty to shipping was granted in the reign Of Elizabeth, when Parliament gave a bounty of five shillings per ton to every ship above 100 tons burden. The law was revived in the reign Of James I.
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