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No. 126. 1856, July IS: Circular addressed by Mr. Marcy, United 

 States Secretary of State to the Collector of Customs. 



CH. H. PEASLEE Esqre 



Collector of the Customs 



Boston. 

 Circular DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, July 12, 1855. 



SIR, It is understood that there are certain Acts of the British 

 North American Colonial Legislatures, and also, perhaps, Executive 

 Regulations, intended to prevent the wanton destruction of the fish 

 which frequent the coasts of the Colonies and injuries to the fishing 

 thereon. There is nothing in the Reciprocity Treaty between the 

 United States and Great Britain which stipulates for the observance 

 of these regulations by our fishermen; yet, as it is presumed, they 

 have been framed with a view to prevent injuries to the fisheries, 

 in which our fishermen now have an equal interest with those of Great 

 Britain, it is deemed reasonable and desirable that both should pay 

 a like respect to those regulations, which were designed to preserve 

 and increase the productiveness and prosperity of the fisheries them- 

 selves. It is, consequently, earnestly recommended to our citizens to 

 direct their proceedings accordingly. You will make this recom- 

 mendation known to the masters of such fishing vessels as belong to 

 your port, in such manner as you may deem most advisable. 

 I am, &c., 



(S) W. L. MARCY. 



It is believed that the principal regulations referred to above are 

 the following, from the Revised Statutes of New Brunswick, Vol. I, 

 Title 22, chap. 101 : 



7. The Wardens of any county shall, when necessary, mark out and desig- 

 nate in proper positions " gurry grounds " putting up notices thereof, describing 

 their limits and position, in the several school bouses and other most public 

 places in the parish where the said gurry grounds are marked out, publishing 

 the like notice in the "Royal Gazette"; and no person after such posting and 

 publication shall cast overboard from any boat or vessel the offal of fish into 

 the waters at or near the said parish at any place except the said gurry 

 grounds. 



12. Within the parishes of Grand Manan, West Isles, Campo Bello, Pennfleld, 

 and St. George, in the County of Charlotte, no seine or net shall be set across - 

 the mouth of any haven, river, creek, or harbour, nor in any place extending 

 more than one-third the distance across the same, or be within 40 fathoms of 

 each other, nor shall they be set within 20 fathoms of the shore at low water 

 mark. 



15. No herrings shall be taken between the 15th of July and 15th October 

 in any year, on the spawning ground at the southern head of Grand Manan, 

 to commence at the eastern part of Seal Cove, at a place known as Red Point; 

 thence extending westerly along the coast and around the southern head Of 

 Bradford's Cove, about five miles, and extending one mile from the shore; all 

 nets or engines used for catching herring on the said ground within that period 

 shall be seized and forfeited, and every person engaged in using the same shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanour and punished accordingly 



208 No. 127. 1855, August 7: Letter from Mr. Crampton to the 



Earl of Clarendon. 



No. 163. WASHINGTON August 7th 1855. 



MY LORD, With reference to my despatch No 129 of the 28th of 

 June last, stating to your Lordship the measures which I had taken 

 for effecting such an arrangement with the Government of the United 



