60 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1916. 
later transfer their vessels or boats to the Canadian registry and permanently operate 
from Prince Rupert; 
And whereas the bonding and outfitting privileges have been renewed to vessels 
shipping their own catches direct, and it is deemed advisable that such privileges 
should for this year be available to smaller vessels and boats; 
Therefore, His Royal Highness the Governor-General in Council is pleased to order, 
and it is hereby ordered as follows: 
The said order in council of the 10th December, 1914, is amended to provide that 
during the present calendar year (1915) foreigners or foreign corporations bringing 
fresh fish in vessels registered in the United States of America to any port in British 
Columbia shall be permitted to land such fresh fish at such port without payment of 
duties and transship the same in bond to any port in the United States, or to sell 
such fish in bond to such local dealers or dealer as may be properly and duly licensed 
therefor, under the regulations and conditions hereinafter mentioned, which dealer 
or dealers shall export the same in compliance with the bonding requirements (with- 
out the right, however, in either instance, to sell in Canada for consumption therein, 
or otherwise except in bond, any of such fresh fish so landed); and such foreigners 
and foreign corporations bringing fresh fish in vessels registered in the United States 
of America to any port in British Columbia, shall be permitted to purchase supplies, 
and ship crews for such vessels, at any port in the said Province of British Columbia, 
the whole under such regulations and conditions as the minister of customs may 
determine. . 
The foregoing order in council, aside from the preamble, was re- 
newed with additional provisions on January 31, 1916, as follows: 
During the present calendar year 1916, foreigners or foreign corporations bringing 
fresh fish in vessels registered in the United States of America to any port in British 
Columbia, shall be permitted to land such fresh fish at such port without payment of 
duties, and transship the same in bond to any port in the United States, or to sell 
such fish in bond to such local dealer or dealers as may be properly and duly licensed 
therefor under the regulations and conditions hereinafter mentioned, which dealer 
or dealers shall export the same in compliance with the bonding requirements (but 
without the right, however, in either instance, to sell in Canada for consumption 
therein or otherwise, except in bond, any of such fresh fish so landed); and such 
foreigners and foreign corporations bringing fresh fish in vessels registered in the 
United States of America to any port in British Columbia, shall be permitted to pur- 
chase bait and supplies, and ship crews for such vessels at any port in the said Province 
of British Columbia: Provided also, that such foreigners and foreign corporations 
before bringing fresh fish to a port in British Columbia, may be permitted to purchase 
bait at any port in the said Province of British Columbia, upon an undertaking to 
the satisfaction of the minister of customs that catches of fish made with any baiting 
so supplied shall be landed at a port on the mainland of British Columbia and be 
thence forwarded in bond to a port in the United States, the whole under such regu- 
lations and conditions as the minister of customs may determine. 
That part of the order permitting the purchase of bait in British 
Columbia by American fishermen under an agreement to return their 
catch to a port in British Columbia was a new feature of this order. 
Under the efforts of the Canadian authorities the halibut industry 
at Prince Rupert continued its development in 1916. The total 
landings of halibut at that port were approximately 19,000,000 
pounds in 1916, as against about 16,000,000 in 1915. Of these 
