1168 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Notice is hereby given, that the King's Officers, Stationed in those 

 parts, have always had my Orders to Protect, Assist and Encourage 

 by every means in their Power, all Vessels from the Plantations Em- 

 ployed in the Whale Fishery, coming within this Government; and 

 Pursuant to His Majesty's Orders to me, all Vessels from the Plan- 

 tations will be admitted to that Coast, on the same footing as they 

 ever have been admitted in Newfoundland; the Ancient Practices 

 and Customs Established in Newfoundland respecting the Cod Fish- 

 ery, under the Act of Parliament passed in the 10th and llth years 

 of William 3rd. commonly called the Fishing Act, always to be 

 Observed. 



And by my Regulations for the Encouragement of the Whale 

 Fishers, they are also, under certain necessary Restrictions therein 

 Prescribed, permitted to land and cut up their Whales in Labrador; 

 this is a Liberty that never has been allowed them in Newfoundland, 

 because of the danger of Prejudicing the Cod Fishery, carried on by 

 our Adventurers Ships, and by Boat-keepers from Britain, Lawfully 

 Qualified with Fishery Certificates according to the aforementioned 

 Act, who are fitted out at a very great risque and expence in comply- 

 ing with the said Act; therefore they must not be liable to have 

 their Voyages overthrown or rendered precarious by any means, or 

 by any other Vessel whatever. And 



Whereas great Numbers of the Whaling Crews arriving from the 

 Plantations on the Coast of Labrador early in the Spring, consider- 

 ing it as a lawless Country, are Guilty of all sorts of outrages before 

 the arrival of the King's Ships, Plundering whoever they found on 

 the Coast too weak to resist them, Obstructing our Ship- Adventurers 

 from Britain by sundry ways, Banking amongst their Boats along 

 the Coast, which ruins the Coast Fishery, and is contrary to the most 

 Ancient and most strictly Observed Rule of the Fishery, and must 

 not be suffered on any account; also by destroying their fishing 

 Works on the Shore, stealing their Boats, Tackle and Utensils, 

 firing the woods along the Coast, and Hunting for, and Plundering, 

 taking way, or Murdering the poor Indian Natives of the Country ; 

 by these Violences, Barbarities and other Notorious Crimes and 

 Enormities that Coast is in the utmost confusion, and with respect 

 to the Indians is kept in a state of War ; 



For preventing these Practices in future, Notice is hereby given, 

 that the King's Officers in those parts are Authorized and strictly 

 directed to apprehend all such Offenders within this Government, 

 and to bring them to me to be tryed for the same at the General 

 Assizes at this Place ; and for the better Government of that Country, 

 for Regulating the Fisheries, and for Protecting His Majesty's Sub- 

 jects from Insults from the Indians, I have His Majesty's Commands 

 to Erect Block Houses, and to Establish Guards along the Coast. 



This Notification is to be put up in the Harbours in Labrador with 

 my Government 



Given under my Hand at St. Johns in Newfoundland 1st August 

 1766. 



HUGH PALLISSER. 



By Order of His Excellency. 



Endorsed : Copy of an Order of Govr. Pallisser respecting depre- 

 dations committee! on the Coast of Labrador and in Newfoundland, 

 dated August 1. 1766. 



