128 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



citizens of the United States, and the subjects of His Most 

 Christian Majesty the King of France, fishing in the Gulf, 

 to respect and conform to Treaties, as far as the same relate 

 to the boundaries assigned them, respectively, for carrying 

 on the fisheries in the Gulph St. Lawrence, and if possible 

 to prevent their throwing the offal or gurry of the fish upon 

 the fishing banks, a practice alike pernicious to the interests 

 of the people and of the three nations concerned in the Gulph 

 fisheries. 



"3rd. That at the special request of several merchants 

 of Quebec, interested in the fisheries and in the exportation 

 of fish, inspectors be appointed at Quebec and Montreal, in 

 virtue of an Act of the Legislature to be passed for that 

 purpose, and that all fish intended for exportation be duly 

 inspected, culled and branded previous to shipment, and that 

 for these purposes, a separate Bill be passed. Your com- 

 mittee report herewith the draught of a Bill prepared for 

 that purpose by their directions. 



"4th. That a moderate premium or bounty be allowed 

 upon the exportation of fish, and that a drawback be allowed 

 upon salt to be used and consumed at the fisheries actually 

 established, or that might hereafter be established in any 

 part or parts of the Counties of Cornwallis or Northumber- 

 land, above the limits heretofore by law fixed, authorizing 

 a drawback on salt, and that this be also provided for by a 

 separate Bill, of which your committee also report a draught 

 prepared by their directions. 



"5th. That a drawback of the duty of two and a half 

 per cent., imposed by the Act 53d Geo. III., Cap. llth, be 

 allowed on all fishing materials going from Quebec or Mont- 

 real for the use of the fisheries in the said Inferior District 

 of Gaspe, or in the Counties of Cornwallis or Northumber- 

 land, and that fishing materials, when imported into the said 

 Inferior District, directly from the United Kingdom, for the 

 use of the fisheries in that District, be exempted from the 

 duty aforesaid, and that this be also provided for by a separ- 



