1522 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



April, 1878, which is to be found at p. 648 of the United States 

 Case Appendix : 



" On Sunday, January 13, three crews of American schooners, 

 assisted by some Newfoundlanders, put out their seines to haul her- 

 ring; they all succeeded in getting large quantities in their seines, 

 when the fishermen of the bay (Newfoundlanders) gathered together 

 and went to each of the captains and demanded that they should let 

 the herring go out of their seines." 



A little further down on p. 648 : 



" The first captain they addressed (Capt. James McDonald, of 

 schooner F. A. Smith) acceded to their demands and took up his 

 seine; the second, Captain Jacobs, of schooner Moses Adams, had in 

 the meantime run his herring into another seine belonging to a seine- 

 master (Mr. Farroll, of Fortune Bay "- 



A native 



" w ho was working with him, and which was moored inside of 



his own) ; he took up his own seine into his boat, but refused to let 

 the herring out of the other one." 



Page 649 : 



" In the winter of 1876-77 a similar case occurred, one of the 

 American seines being put out on Sunday by the crew, in charge of a 

 Newfoundlander as seine-master, Jeremiah Petites. The people of 

 the bay demanded that the seines should not be hauled, and it was 

 accordingly tripped and taken up by the owners, no further difficulty 

 occurring." 



Page 676: 



" A conversation took place between Ryan and Cooper, the purport 

 of which is given by Cooper, and confirmed by Ryan. Ryan said to 

 Cooper that he was a Newfoundlander, and could seine; Cooper re- 

 plied that he could not. Ryan said he would; and Cooper replied 

 ' you'd better try.' Not a word was said by McFaden. 



" After the short conversation, which lasted a few minutes, Ryan 

 and the master of the schooner went down to Lower Lances Cove, 

 which is a short distance from Aspey Cove, and there shot their seine, 

 and hauled some herring." 



Page 691. This is the deposition of Mark Bolt, and these deposi- 

 tions seem to have been taken before the senior naval officer on that 

 station, so that they were British affidavits : 



" One Sunday in January last John Hickey, Newfoundlander, came 

 first and hove his seine out. Five Newfoundlanders came and told 

 him to take it up, and he did not ; then others came and insisted upon 

 it, then he took it up. If he had then refused to take it up it would 

 have been torn up. 



" Then Jacobs, an American, came and laid his seine out and 

 hauled about 100 barrels of herring in the big American seine, and 

 capsized into Tom Farrel's seine a Newfoundland fishermen em- 

 ployed by Jacobs and fishing for him. 



