1780 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



Then, in 1803, a lighthouse was being put up at Annapolis, on the 

 same scale as the lighthouse at Halifax, and dues were levied ac- 

 cordingly. It was the same way in 1809 and in 1812. 



All these dues were paid without any complaint or protest. There 

 was a complaint or protest, to which I shall draw attention later, with 

 regard to light dues in the Strait of Canso; but that was only by the 

 fishermen, the people who paid the dues. There was no protest on 

 the part of the United States. 



Then in New Brunswick it was the same way. Dues were imposed 

 for the support of the lighthouse at the Port of St. John, upon all 

 vessels other than upon the coasting- and fishing- vessels belonging to 

 the province. Of course the coasting-vessels were very much of the 

 same type as the fishing-vessels perhaps a little larger but a very 

 fit subject for special indulgence or exemption. Then, in 181<>. New 

 Brunswick imposed dues for maintaining beacons, buoys. &c.. on all 

 vessels entering Miramichi and certain other bays. That, of course, 

 has some value when one is speaking of the later question that will 

 come on in regard to bays, showing, as one of the acts, of which there 

 are many, that the adjacent territory assumed certain obligations 

 and duties in regard to the bay, for which it makes charges of a char- 

 acter very much like the exercise of a jurisdiction. 



In the colonies now forming the United States there was the same 

 thing, just as I pointed out before 1783. Massachusetts I choose as an 

 instance, because it is the great maritime colony of the United States, 

 or was so in those days. Just as it legislated in this sense before, so 

 after 1783 we find it doing the same thing. In 1804 duties were im- 

 posed on all foreign vessels entering any port of the United States, 

 without any exemption whatever for fishing- vessels. There they 

 thought that they could not trust fishing-vessels to come in without 

 having them under some kind of inspection or observation, probably 

 because it could scarcely be for the sake of the revenue that they 

 would trouble about the few foreign fishing- vessels coining in. There 

 were not many. But I suppose they thought it was desirable to have 

 them under all their ordinary regulations, perhaps in order to pre- 

 vent smuggling, though their way of getting at them was by a light 

 duty. 



Then, also, we see that in 1790 anchorage fees are being charged by 

 Nova Scotia. They are very small fees. The schedule of them is set 

 out on pp. 171 and 173 of the British Counter-Case Appendix. There 

 is no need to go into it, and I only mention it so that the reference 

 may be on the notes. But small fees are charged for anchorage : 

 that means, I suppose, to cover the cost of placing these buoys in the 

 water, to which the smaller boats may conveniently anchor; and a 

 small charge was made for that purpose. 



Then the first complaint that we have is one to which I just a mo- 

 ment ago referred. It was in 1806. The fishermen of Massachusetts 



