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any port in this Colony for the purpose of purchasing bait, ice, seines, 

 lines and all other supplies and outfits for the fishery and for the 

 shipping of crews. 



You are to see that every fishing vessel of the United States which 

 enters your port or any port within your jurisdiction, except it be 

 within the above limits, for other than the purpose of shelter, repair- 

 ing damage and of purchasing wood and of obtaining water, shall 

 obtain a license as set forth in the "Foreign fishing vessels Act," 

 and shall pay for the same the fee of one dollar and fifty cents per 

 registered ton, but if the port be within the above limits she may 

 enter to take (catch) fish w.ithout a license, as well as for the above 

 purposes, but not to buy fish or carry on trade, or for any purpose 

 not above mentioned. 



You are prohibited from issuing to any foreign fishing vessel a 

 license, if such vessel has on board dutiable goods that may be sold 

 or otherwise disposed of in trade. 



Every fishing vessel of the United States which enters your port, 

 or any port within your jurisdiction, having on board goods which 

 may be sold or otherwise disposed of by way of trade, must be 

 promptly reported to the Assistant Collector. When reporting give 

 full particulars as to name of vessel, tonnage, port of registry, 

 master's name, number of crew and the kinds and quantity of duti- 

 able goods on board such vessel, which may be sold or disposed of in 

 trade. Ship's stores are to be treated as such, and shall not be landed 

 or disposed of by way of trade, but if the quantity of liquor or 

 tobacco on board such vessel be large, a portion may be considered 

 as not being ship's stores, and in this respect you must use your 

 own discretion. 



Vessels of the United States resorting to the herring fishing centres 

 during the fall and winter herring fishery, must enter and clear at a 

 port of entry in this Colon} 7 and will not be permitted to enter without 

 producing a clearance obtained from the port in the United States 

 which they last left before entering any port in this Colony. A 

 license only permits fishing vessels to obtain bait and not cargoes 

 of herring for export, and fishing vessels having a license only will 

 not hereafter be permitted to purchase herring for export. 



Custom House, St. John's, Newfoundland, 18th March, 1898. 



H. W. LEMESSURIER, 



Assistant Collector. 



Correspondence between the Government of Newfoundland and 

 the Imperial Government, in reference to the settling of the French 

 Shore Question, W04.[ a ] 



No. I. 



Despatch from Mr. Lyttelton stating the basis on which a settlement 



is possible. 



[Received 14th January, 1904.] 



The discussion of the French fishery question on the basis of ar- 

 rangement in the matter of Baiting and Bounties having proved of 

 no avail, His Majesty's Advisers proposed not to continue it, but to 



["] Published Saint John's, Newfoundland. 1004. 



