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3. Your first duty on arriving on your Station will be to acquaint 

 yourself by personal inquiry amongst the Fishermen and others on 

 the spot, with such information in regard to the Fisheries as will 

 enable you with the experience you will have gained at the end of 

 the season, to make a full report on this staple of Colonial commerce, 

 and of the best means to be adopted in the ensuing year for its 

 effectual protection. 



4. You are to make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the Coasts 

 and the various Ports and anchorages where you will be able to seek 

 shelter in bad or thick weather, so that you will experience no diffi- 

 culty under such circumstances in making out the land when you 

 close it. 



5. A letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on the 

 subject of Pilotage is annexed (C) by which you are to be guided. 

 To your report (Art. 3) is to be added one from your Navigating 

 Officer relative to the Navigation and Pilotage of your Station. 



6. You will regulate your cruising according to the information 

 you may obtain from time to time giving your principal attention to 

 that part of your Station on which you find the United States fisher- 

 men are chiefly engaged, and unless detained by stress of weather 

 you are not to remain in harbour more than 48 hours at one time. 

 During the night, where strong currents prevail and during fogs, it 

 will be well to anchor whenever the weather, depth of water, and 

 other circumstances permit, using your stream for the purpose in 

 deep water. 



You are to cruise as much as possible under sail, but you are to keep 

 your fires banked in order that you may be prepared to use steam 

 whenever the service renders it requisite that you should do so. 



7. In reference to the second paragraph of marginal note G in the 

 annexed letter (A), the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have 

 decided that one previous warning will be sufficient before seizing any 



Vessel fishing in violation of the law. (See also Article 1.) 

 232 On boarding any Foreign fishing vessel for the purpose of 



warning her, the boarding Officer will inform the Master, in 

 the presence of a competent witness, that if he is again found fishing 

 or having fished within the prescribed limits, he will be subject to 

 seizure. 



8. You will keep a list of all Vessels boarded, in the following 

 form ; and you will take every opportunity of furnishing lists of the 

 Foreign Vessels which you may have warned to Her Majesty's Ships 

 and the Colonial Cruisers, in order that the law may not be evaded. 



1 Qy. steam. 



