APPENDIX. 315 
FISHING ON SUNDAY. 
ACT 8 VICT. CAP. 45. 
ABSTEAOT. 
Sec. III. — Prohibits all fishing and shooting on Sundays, under 
penalty not to exceed ten pounds, nor be less than five shillings and 
costs. 
ME. WHITCHER'S REPORT. 
To THE Hon. P. M. Yaxkoughnet, 
Commissioner of Crown Lands^ etc. 
Sir — Your directions of the 17th of May last, honored me with 
the service of inspecting and taking inventories of certain public 
properties within the territory known as "The King's Posts," pre- 
paratory to their resumption by government at the expiry of lease 
with the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company. Obedient to which I have 
made a personal and minute inspection of the several premises with 
the view of ascertaining their actual state. The results of such exa- 
mination, and other information affecting their delivery and accept- 
ance, as between the, Company and the Crown, form the subject of 
various special communications and of a General Eeport already 
addressed to the Department. 
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The river Marguerite discharges a large volume of water, and in 
the tidal portion affords tolerable salmon fishery. The lower course 
is much broken by abrupt falls, and the fish not ascending the 
stream to the more highly aerated waters of its sources, are ill- 
shapen and coarse, and but of middling size. The spawning-places 
swarmed with salmon fry. A trifling outlay in the construction of 
stone basin steps would overcome the main obstacles to the ascent 
of salmon along this stream. 
The river Pentecost is smaller, and has a high fall quite inaccessi- 
ble to fish, some three miles from its mouth, where the bottom is 
soft and muddy, and the shores clayey, which peculiarities probably 
deter salmon from entering it. In the entrance, and for upward of 
a league along the St. Lawrence bank westward, there is excellent 
sea trout fishing for nets. The trout reach four pounds' weight, and 
are well flavored. They take the artificial fly and bait with great 
avidity at ebb and flow of the tide, particularly inside the embou- 
chure. 
