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eftabliihment on the ifland for the execution of the laws of trade, fmugg- 

 ling was carried on with impunity, efpecially with the French fettled at 

 Miquelon ai:id St. Pierre, during the abfence of the Britifli fhips of war. 

 And there was even reafon to apprehend, that many veflels, rcforting to 

 Newfoundland as Britilli, were partly owned by Spaniards and other fo- 

 reigners. 



Such being now the flate of the ifland and of the fifliery, and it being 

 undeniable, that the fiihiermen fettled on the ifland can go earlier to, 

 and remain later upon, the fifhing grounds, than the fhips can do, and 

 that they have alio many advantages in repairing their veffels, ftages, 

 &.C. it was evident, that, notwithftanding the difadvantages proceeding 

 from their diforderly way of life, the quantity of fifh, cured and carried 

 to market, was now as great as in the mofl flourifhing times of this fifh- 

 ery, while the exports to the ifland were five times as many as at that 

 period, befides that they were fuppofed to take from the coiitinental co- 

 lonies twice as much as they do from home, the profits of which ulti- 

 mately center in this country. 



It being therefor impracticable, without very great violence, if not 

 even injuflice, to reftore the fyflem of the fifliery prefcribed by the act 

 of the loth and nth of King William, and to abolifh the fedentary 

 fifhery, the lords of trade advifed that fettlements and property fliould 

 be ratified by laws in all parts of the ifland, excepting that portion of 

 the coafl, where a concurrent fifliery by French, as well as Britifli, fub- 

 jects was ftipulated by the treaties of Utrecht and Paris, and where a 

 fliip fifliery only will be moft for the advantage of all concerned. 



Commodore Pallifer, governor of Newfoundland, at the beginning of 

 the feafon, publiflied regulations for the fifhery on the coall of La- 

 brador, and the iflands of Anticofli and the Madelaines, regulations for 

 the falmon fifliery in Newfoundland, and orders for eflablifhing a friendly 

 intercourfe with the Efquimeaux Indians of Labrador. 



At the end of the fealbn he made up a ftatement of the fifliery and 

 the inhabitants of his government, by which it appears that there had 

 arrived this year, 



177 Britifli iifliing fliips, of the total burthen of 17,268 tuns, and car- 

 rying 2,521 men, and 5,397 paflengers, who cured 136,840 quintals 



of cod, valued at from 10/ to 17/per quintal, and made 585:^ tuns of 



train oil, valued at from £1 ^ to £iS per tun ; 

 116 Britifli lack (or trading) fliips, burthen 14,353 tuns, carrying 1252 



men, who do not fifli, but bring I'alt, or only ballaft, and purchafe 



their fifh ; 

 104 Britilh- American veflels, burthen 6.927 tuns, carrying 666 men. 

 There wore alio made by the bye-boat men 85,096 (]uintals of cod, and 



481 ^ tuns of train oil; and by the inhabitants 310,576 quintals of 



«od, and 1317^ tuns of oil. 



