DESPATCHES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 615 



all time without any sort of equivalent or compensation. Mr. Bayard 

 can, I venture to think, scarcely expect that my Government should 

 agree to so one-sided a proposal or should make without any return, 

 concessions so damaging to the interests of this country or so injuri- 

 ous to its self respect. 



15. I trust that Her Majesty's Government will, to the utmost of 

 its ability, discourage that of the United States from pressing the 

 proposals in their present shape, and will avoid any action which 

 might induce the belief that the offer embodied in them is one which 

 deserved a favourable reception at the hands of the Government of 

 the Dominion. 



I have, &c., 



(Sd) LANSDOWNE. 



The Right Hon. EDAVARD STANHOPE, 

 &c. &c. &c. 



367 No. 227. 1887, January 10: Report ~by Mr. Daniel Manning, 

 United States Secretary of the Treasury, to the Speaker of 

 the United States House of Representatives. 



[49th Congress, 2nd Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 78.] 



AMERICAN FISHERIES. 

 Reply of the Secretary of the Treasury. 



TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 10, 1887. 



SIR, I have the honour to receive the resolution of the House of 

 the 14th ultimo, making enquiry in regard to the "interpretation 

 now given by the Treasury Department to the tariff law of 1883, 

 which in one section declares that 'fish, fresh for immediate con- 

 sumption,' shall be free of tax on arrivel at our sea ports or lake ports, 

 and in another section declares that ' foreign caught fish, imported 

 fresh,' shall be taxed at the rate of fifty cents for each hundred 

 pounds," and also requesting me "to transmit to the House copies 

 of all official correspondence, opinions and decisions bearing on the 

 subject, together with a statement of the duties collected each year, 

 since eighteen hundred and sixty-five, on the several descriptions of 

 fish caught on the lakes, or the Canadian tributaries thereof, and also 

 on the several descriptions caught in the North Atlantic, or on the 

 shores of the islands thereof." 



FROZEN FISH. 



A satisfactory reply to these enquiries will make necessary a pre- 

 liminary statement, and an exhibition of certain details connected 

 therewith. 



By the tariff law of 1846 there was levied 20 per cent, ad valorem, 

 on the foreign value of : 



Fish, foreign, whether fresh, smoked, salted, dried, or pickled, not otherwise 

 provided for. 



