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as are applicable to trading vessels; but at the same time was not 

 allowed commercial privileges. 



I beg you will lose no time in representing the wrong inflicted 

 upon an unoffending citizen of the United States, and procure the 

 adoption of such orders as will restore the money so compelled to 

 be deposited. 



I am, &c., 



(Sd) T. F. BAYARD. 



The Honourable Sir L. West, K. C. M. G., 



C&C., <&C., (&C. 



No. 218. 1886, October 28: Report of a Committee of the Privy 



Council for Canada. 



The Committee of the Privy Council have had their attention 

 called by a cablegram from the Right Honourable Mr. Stanhope, 

 as to when he may expect answer to Despatch No. 195 " Rattler." 



The Honourable Mr. Bowell, for the Minister of Marine and 

 Fisheries, to whom the papers were referred, submits for the infor- 

 mation of his Excellency in Council that having considered the 

 statements, copies of which are annexed, of Captain Quigley of the 

 Government cutter " Terror " and of the Collector of Customs at 

 Shelburne with reference to the subject matter of the despatch, he 

 is of opinion that these officers only performed their respective 

 352 duties in the case of the " Rattler," and that no just ground 

 exists for the complaint put forward by Mr. Bayard's despatch 

 of a " violation of that hospitality which all civilised nations pre- 

 scribe," or of a " gross infraction of Treaty stipulations." 



The Minister states that it does not appear at all certain from the 

 statements submitted that this vessel put into Shelburne for a harbour 

 in consequence of stress of weather. It does, however, appear that 

 immediately upon the " Rattler " coming into port, Captain Quigley 

 sent his chief officer to inform the Captain of the " Rattler " that 

 before sailing he must report his vessel at the Custom House, and 

 left on board the " Rattler " a guard of two men to see that no sup- 

 plies were landed or taken on board or men allowed to leave the 

 vessel during her stay in Shelburne Harbour. That at midnight the 

 guard fired a shot as signal to the cruiser, and the first officer at 

 once again proceeded to the " Rattler," and found the sails being 

 hoisted and the anchor weighed preparatory to leaving port. The 

 Captain being informed he must comply with the Customs regula- 

 tions and report his vessel, he headed her up the harbour. That on 

 the way up she became becalmed when the first officer of the " Terror " 

 took the Captain of the " Rattler " in his boat and rowed him to the 

 town, when the Collector of Customs received his report at the un- 

 usual hour of 6 a. m. rather than detain him, and the Captain with 

 his vessel proceeded to sea. 



The Minister observes that under section 25 of the Customs Act 

 every vessel entering a port in Canada is required to immediately 

 report at the Customs, and the strict enforcement of this regulation 

 as regards United States' fishing vessels, has become a necessity, in 

 view of the illegal trade transactions carried on by United States' 



