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  """THE PEARL-SHELL AND BECHE-DE-MER FISHERY ACT OF 1881"" / This is to certify that Davis Wilson / owner of the * Ship, hereunder described, having applied to"

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  How Painted: White / Name of Owner: Davis Wilson / Given under my hand at --- this 21st day of Jany 1885.

Distinguishing letter and Number} A. 47
LICENSE
UNDER
"THE PEARL-SHELL AND BECHE-DE-MER FISHERY ACT OF 1881"
This is to certify that Davis Wilson
owner of the * Ship, hereunder described, having applied to
me for a License to employ the said Ship in the Pearl-Shell and
Beche-de-mer Fishery, and having paid the sum of Three Pounds -
Shillings as the amount of the License Fee payable under the provisions of "The Pearl-Shell and
Beche-de-mer Fishery Act of 1881," in respect of this License, the said * Ship
is hereby licensed to be employed in such fishery to the 31st day of December 1885.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHIP OR BOAT
Name: Tom
Rig: Lugger
Tonnage: Under ten tons
How Painted: White
Name of Owner: Davis Wilson
Given under my hand at --- this 21st day of Jany 1885.
[unreadable signature]
Principal Officer of Customs at the Port of ---
*Insert "Ship" or "Boat."
LICENSE FEE. For every boat the sum of One Pound ; for every ship of ten tons burder or under, the sum of Three Pounds ; for every ship
above ten tons burden, the sum of Ten Shillings for every ton or part of a ton of the tonnage of said ship up to thirty tons ; and for every ship above thirty
tons burden the sum of Twenty Pounds. One half of the above scale when Licenses are issued after the 1st of July in any one year.
No. 879
51-33-82-3.
By Authority : James C. Beal, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane