1166 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



the same to be correct in every particular, the same having been com- 

 piled from the records of the customs establishment and other authentic 

 records in this island. 



JAMES S. HAYWARD, 



Asst. Collector. 



Sworn before me, at St. John's aforesaid, this fifth day of June, A. D. 



1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 



Commissioner of Affidavits. 



No. 51. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 



St. John's, to wit : 



The honorable James Johnstone Rogerson, of St. John's aforesaid, 

 receiver-general and collector of customs for the island of Newfound- 

 land, maketh oath and saith that the annexed statement, marked A, * 

 has been carefully examined by ttrs deponent, and he verily believes 

 the same to be correct in every particular as therein set forth, the said 

 statement having been compiled from the re'cords of the customs depart- 

 ment and other authentic records of the said island. 



JAMES J. ROGERSON, 



R. G. and C. Collector. 



Sworn before me, at St. John's aforesaid, this eighth day of June, A. 

 D. 1877. 



JAMES O. FRASER, 



Commissioner of Affds. 

 No. 52. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 



St. John's, to wit : 



I, Joseph P. Deneff, at present in St. John's aforesaid, and a native 

 of the said island, do declare that I have been for the past six years, 

 last preceding the date hereof, engaged in prosecuting the fisheries out 

 of the ports of Salem and Gloucester, in the United States, on the coasts 

 of Newfoundland, of the Dominion of Canada, and on the Banks in the 

 deep sea ; that I am of opinion that it will be of the greatest impor- 

 tance to American fishermen to be enabled to get the bait necessary for 

 the Bank fisheries in Newfoundland; that this benefit can hardly be 

 overestimated ; that there will be, during the current season, upwards 

 of two hundred American vessels in Fortune Bay for bait, and that 

 there will be upwards of three hundred vessels which are engaged in 

 the Grand Bank fisheries belonging to the United States, to which it 

 will be of the greatest advantage to run into Newfoundland for bait of 

 different kinds, and they would probably make about four trips during 

 the season ; that capliu is among the best bait which can be used for 

 this fishery, and vessels would probably be enabled to make two trips 

 during the capliu season ; that this declarant is of opinion, from his ex- 

 perience, that the Bank fisheries are capable of immense expansion and 

 development, and that the privilege of getting bait on the Newfound- 

 land coast is indispensable to accomplish this object; that a vessel oC 

 from seventy to ninety tons would take about one hundred barrels of 

 caplin each trip. 



JOSEPH P. DENEFF, 

 Master of the schr. John Smith, of Gloucester, Mass., U. 8. 



* See Annex D, attached to British case. 



