AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



1173 



No. 58. 



GEORGE T. R. SNELLGROVE, aged 52 years, subcollector, residing at 

 St. Jacques, in Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, maketb oath and saith: 

 That the statement attached, marked A, contains the names of American 

 vessels loaded in 1876 with frozen herrings and salted herrings at For- 

 tune Bay, Newfoundland, as far as I ain personally aware of; that the 

 statement attached marked B contains the names of American fishing- 

 vessels visited by him in 1876, and known by him to have called at this 

 neighborhood for the purpose of procuring bait. 



I am aware that a large number of American schooners in addition 

 to those named by me have called at the various ports of this bay dur- 

 ing the past year for bait; I think quite as many as I have named. 

 Bait was purchased by these American fishermen from Newfoundland 

 fishermen. I have to complain that American vessels frequenting 

 these parts studiously try to evade payment of light-dues during the 

 fishing season, comparatively few of them having paid, I being without 

 means to enforce payment. 



GEO. T. R. SNELLGROVE, Sub-Collector. 



Sworn before me at St. Jacques, Newfoundland, this sixth day of No- 

 vember, A. D. 1876. 



J. O. FRASER, Commissioner of Affidavits. 



A. 



Statement of American vessels, as far as ascertained, loaded with frozen and salt herrings in 

 Fortune Say, between Boxey and Long Harbor, 1876. 



' Failed to get load. 



