MISCELLANEOUS COEEESPONDENCE, DOCUMENTS, 



ETC. 



EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF COLONIAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEM- 

 BLIES, MISCELLANEOUS BRITISH, COLONIAL AND OTHER CORRE- 

 SPONDENCE, DOCUMENTS, REPORTS, ETC. 



The Earl of Dalhousie to Earl Bathurst. 



[Extract.] 



QUEBEC, June 8, 1827. 



" The nomination of the superintendent of the fisheries in Gaspe, 

 obliges me to ask of your lordship some more accurate information on 

 that subject than I have been able to obtain here, even from the 

 officers of the navy whom I have had any opportunity of conversing 

 with upon it, and who have been employed in cruising in the Gulf of 

 Saint Lawrence for the protection of our fisheries. 



" Your lordship knows that repeated complaints have been made 

 by those occupied in the fisheries along the shores of Gaspe, and Bay 

 Chaleurs, that they have been for the last ten years wholly over- 

 powered by the American fishing- vessels which resort there annually ; 

 an average of 1,500 sail pass at Canso into the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence, spreading early in the season along the Labrador shore, high 

 up in the salmon fisheries, near the rivers of the Mingan and Seven 

 Islands, then to the Magdalen Islands and Cape Breton shore, and 

 latterly coming down upon the Gaspe shore. Orphan Bank, and 

 north shore of Prince Edward Island, completely driving the British 

 fishermen out of their way." 



Extracts from the Journal of the Legislative Assembly of New- 

 foundland, 1850. 



APRIL 24, 1850. 

 ******* 



On motion of Mr. Shea, pursuant to notice, seconded by Mr. 

 Hoyles, 



Eesolved, That the following Address be presented to Her Most 

 Gracious Majesty: 



To the QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY: 



May it Please Your Majesty, We, Your Majesty's loyal subjects, 

 the House of Assembly of Newfoundland, beg leave most humbly to 

 approach Your Majesty with feelings of the most profound respect 

 for Your Majesty's person and Government. 



The subject of the Fisheries of this Colony has frequently been 

 brought under the notice of Your Majesty, and measures prayed for 



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