APPENDICES TO ORAL ARGUMENTS. 



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Br. App. 690. 1765. 

 Regulations by Hugh Palliser 

 (Governor). 



1. No colonist (except whale 

 fishers) to go to Labrador. 



2. No person to resort to Lab- 

 rador to fish or trade except ship 

 fishers from His Majesty's Do- 

 minions in Europe. 



3. Regulations in 10 and 11 

 Wm. Ill, c. 25, to apply to Lab- 

 rador. 



the treatment received by the in 

 habitants at the hands of these 

 masters, the whole civilized 

 world would join in a shout of 

 indignant condemnation. The 

 first master who arrived at any 

 particular harbor was its admiral 

 for the season; the second was 

 its vice-admiral, and the third its 

 rear-admiral. Thus, at the out- 

 set, no attention whatever was 

 paid to the qualifications to the 

 heads or the hearts of these 

 strange rulers. Accident a long 

 passage or a short one, a dull or a 

 quick-sailing vessel Determined 

 everything. The triumph of the 

 English merchants over their 

 fellow-subjects, in this lone and 

 desolate isle, was as complete as 

 that of the warrior who storms a 

 city. In fine, the ' admirals ' se- 

 lected the best fishing-stations, 

 displaced at will the resident 

 fishermen who occupied them, 

 drove the inhabitants from their 

 own houses, took hush-money 

 and presents of fish in adjusting 

 cases brought before them tor ad- 

 judication, and, in their general 

 course, were as arbitrary and as 

 corrupt as the leaders of banditti. 

 There were exceptions, it may be 

 admitted; but the accounts are 

 uniform that, as a class, the ' ad- 

 mirals ' were both knaves and ty- 

 rants. Yet the law which au- 

 thorized these iniquities bore the 

 title of 'An act to encourage the 

 trade of Newfoundland.' " 



" Regulations Establishing a 

 British Fishery for Cod, Whale, 

 'ieals, and Salmon on the Coast 

 of Labrador, 1765." 



The above endorsement shows 

 the purpose of the Governor's 

 ;;rder. 



It is in pursuance of the tra- 

 ditional British policy of mo- 

 nopolising all these fisheries for 

 the benefit of the fishermen 

 1414 coming from Great Brit- 

 ain, and the extension of 



