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Washington Treaty. It enables the American vessels to make more 

 trips, catch more fish, and increases the paying capacity of the enter- 

 prise. 



5. It is a great advantage to American fishermen to be allowed to 

 procure bait in our waters and ports, and from our fishermen. They 

 could not carry on their cod-fishing successfully without it. The very 

 fact that Americans in many cases buy the bait instead of catching it 

 themselves is evidence that they find it more profitable to do so. 



C. It is also an advantage to American fishermen to be allowed to 

 resort to Canadian iushores for ice to preserve their bait and to supply 

 themselves with other articles for outfit required in the business. 



7. The privilege of fishing in American waters has so far, at least, 

 not proved of any advantage to Canadian fishermen so far as I know. 



8. Not nearly all the American fishing-vessels passing through the 

 Straits of Causo are noted or reported. A great number pass through 

 every year that have never been noted or reported at all. 



9. The Newfoundland herring fleet from American ports go thither 

 along the eastern side of Cape Breton instead of passing through the 

 straits, and toward the latter part of the season large quantities of the 

 most valuable mackerel are taken by Americans on the eastern shore of 

 Cape Breton between Cape North and Louisburg, and thereabouts. 



10. I do not consider the privileges derived by Canadians of sending 

 fish into American markets free of duty as at all equivalent to the- ad- 

 vantages which the Americans obtaiu under the Treaty of Washington 

 of catching fish, getting bait, and transshipping in our waters and 

 ports. 



GEO. C. LAWRENCE. 



Sworn to before me at Port Hastings, in the county of Inverness, 

 this 25th day of July, 1877, before me. 



W. M. CLOUGH, J. P. 



No. 46. 



In the matter of the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, under the Treaty 



of Washington. 



I, JAMES B. HADLEY, of Port Mulgrave, in the county of Guys- 

 borough and Province of Nova Scotia, notary public, make oath and 

 say as follows : 



1. I have resided at the Strait of Canso since the year 1837. From 

 that time until the year 1841 I was engaged in general trade and fishing 

 business. After that I was collector of light duties and preventive and 

 excise officer until the year 1848, alter which year and until the year 

 1856 I was engaged in mercantile and fishing business. Since the year 

 1856 I have done business as a public notary. During the whole period 

 since the year 1837 I have had a very extensive and complete knowl- 

 edge, both personally and otherwise, of the fishing business as carried 

 on by the Americans in the waters on the coasts of No.va Scotia, the 

 Eastern or Gulf coasts of New Brunswick and Quebec, at the Magdaleu 

 Islands and Anticosti. 



2. That I am well acquainted with the different voyages that the 

 Americans undertake in our waters tor fishing purposes. From about 

 the 20th of April to the 10th of May, the Americans pass through the 

 Strait of Canso to the herring fishery at the Magdalen Islands. The 

 next fishery, in point of time, was in former years the Labrador cod 

 fishery ; now, however, trawling for codfish comes next, upon which 



