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each ton burden, a specified sum, not to exceed $272 on any one vessel 

 for one season, of which bounty three-eighths accrued to the owner 

 and the other five-eighths to the several fishermen. In 1817 it was 

 enacted that the bounty shall be paid only to vessels whereof the 

 officers, and at least three-fourths of the crew, shall be citizens of the 

 United States, or persons not the subject of any foreign Prince or 

 State. In 1819, soon after the conclusion of the treaty of 1818, the 

 bounties were increased, but not to exceed $360 for each vessel. In 

 1864 it was enacted that the bounty shall not thereafter be paid to 

 any vessel until satisfactory proof shall have been furnished to the 

 collector of customs that the import duty imposed by law upon 

 foreign salt has been paid on all foreign salt used in curing the fish 

 on which the claim to the allowance to the bounty is based, and the 

 law was repealed on 28th June, 1864, (U. S. Stats, at Large, vol. 13, 

 p. 201,) which required two-thirds of those on board to be American 

 citizens. On 28th July, 1866, all laws and parts of laws allowing 

 fishing-bounties to vessels thereafter licensed to engage in the fisheries 

 was also repealed, but under the condition that duties shall be re- 

 mitted on all foreign salt used by such vessels in curing fish* It seems 

 quite probable that anticipation of the enactment repealing bounties 

 induced, in great part, the great falling off in tonnage between 1862 

 and 1869. 



The best estimate that can be made by this department of the rela- 

 tion of aliens to citizens engaged in American fisheries, in the North 

 Atlantic, other than whalers, is that during the last year (1886) of 

 the 14,240 employed, seventy-eight per cent, were American citizens. 



PRESENT CONDITION OF AMERICAN FISHERIES, AND THE SUM OF DUTIES 

 COLLECTED ON FOREIGN FISH. 



On May 28, 1886, and in furtherance of a suggestion made by our 

 fish commissioner, this department issued a circular letter of instruc- 

 tion to collectors, a copy of which will be found in Appendix (E). 

 The replies received have been transmitted to that commission, and 

 therefrom valuable facts, respecting our fisheries, have been obtained, 

 some of which the commissioner has kindly grouped and placed at 

 jny disposition. They are respectfully submitted to fhe House in 

 Appendix (E). In Appendix (C) will be found such an exhibition 

 of the duties collected on fish as the records of this department, for 

 reasons set forth in the Appendix, make available for immediate pre- 

 sentation to the House. 



Respectfully yours, (Sd.) DANIEL MANNING, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



The Honourable the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



No. 228. 1887, January 15: Report of a Committee of the Privy 

 Council for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor- 

 General in Council. 



The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration 

 a despatch dated 22nd November, 1886, from the Right Honorable 

 the Secretary of State for the Colonies, enclosing letters from Mr. 



