An account, showing the quantity of white herrings, upon which bounty has been allowed by the commissioners for the herring fishery, in virtue of the acts 48 Geo. 3, cap. 110, and 55 Geo. 3, cap. 94, in the two years ended 5th April 1817, distinguishing each year, and the amount of the bounty allowed; showing also, the number of vessels cleared out by the officers of the fishery in same period upon the tonnage bounty, with the amount of the bounty allowed: being such part of the account required by an order of the Honourable House of Commons, dated 13th March 1818, as can be made up from the books of the Herring Fishery Department [electronic resource].