AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 1165 



Which for seven years will be yearly for hire 85 60 



Allowed for extra cordage, &c., yearly 20 00 



A cod seine boat and gear will cost $63, or 7 years' hire 9 00 



2bulley boats 160 00 



1 smaller boat 4S 00 



1 punt 16 00 



224 00 



Which will run at least 7 years, making a yearly hire of 32 00 



Allow for expenses yearly boats li> 00 



3 dozen lines for fall fishing 12 00 



1 gross hooks for fall fishing 1 40 



Twines, $3; lead, $2 5 00 



Provisions used and extras 250 00 



Yearly hire nets 20 00 



6sharemen, at $175 1,050 00 



1 boy 7000 



2 girls,at25 5000 



I, 170 00 



Allowed for yearly expenses, fishing room, &c 50 00 



For other labor besides crew, curing fish, say 500 quintals at 



20 c 100 00 



Master's share as shareman 175 00 



1,942 00 



Net gain on voyage ,.. 558 00 



Oil for salt as usual. Some of the expenses fitting out is done by crew. 



ROBERT S. MUNN. 

 No. 49. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 



St. John's, to wit : 



James S. flay ward, of St. John's aforesaid, assistant collector of Her 

 Majesty's customs, maketh oath and saith : That the statement hereto 

 annexed,* showing the quantity and value of the products therein refer- 

 red to exported and imported by the colony of 'Newfoundland for the 

 years therein stated, viz, eighteen hundred and fifty-one to eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-six, in and from page I to page XX inclusive, and 

 also that the statements hereto annexed, marked A and B,* purporting 

 to he a recapitulation of the imports from the United States and exports 

 to the United States and other countries for the yeir 1851 to the year 

 1876 inclusive, and a statement showing the total and average imports 

 and exports of fish and products of fish for the four years preceding 

 the Reciprocity Treaty, the twelve years under the treaty, seven years 

 after its abrogation, and three years under the Washington Treaty 

 respectively, have been carefully examined by this deponent, and that 

 the said Statements, to the best of this deponent's knowledge and belief, 

 exhibit a true and correct account of the several matters therein set 

 forth. 



JAMES S. HAY WARD, 



Assistant Collector. 



Sworn before me, at St. John's aforesaid this nineteenth day of July, 

 A. D. 1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 

 Commissioner of Affds. 

 No. 50. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 



St. John's, to wit : 



James S. Hayward, of St. John's aforesaid, assistant collector of the 

 customs, maketh oath and saith that the statement annexed, marked No. 

 ll,t has been carefully examined by this deponent and he verily believes 



* Appendix I. t See Annex B, attached to British case. 



