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call in to our harbors and get bait; they wanted to engage with me to 

 build an ice-house, promising that a large number would buy bait and 

 ice from me. They told me they bought their ice for halt a dollar per ton, 

 and I thought that would not leave me much profit and so did not 

 trouble with it. There is au ice house at Heart's Content where a large 

 quantity of ice has been preserved this winter for sale to United States 

 vessels, who have engaged to buy the same, and a large number are 

 expected there this year for bait and ice. Some of these schooners had 

 spirits on board, which they sold to our people without paying duty. 



EDWARD + MOUSE. 



mark. 



Sworn before me at Dildo, Trinity Bay, this 27th April, 1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



ALBERT GEORGE, 33 years, planter and fisherman, residing at Dildo, 

 Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, maketh oath and saith : 



I have been practically acquainted with the fisheries of this country 

 for fourteen years. I was present when Edward Morse made the above 

 statement, which, excepting as relates to the age of said Edward Morse 

 and his conversations and transactions with captains of United States 

 fishing-vessels, I know to be true in every particular according to iny 

 belief. 



ALBERT GEORGE. 



Sworn before me at Dildo, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, this 27th 

 April, 1877. 



J. O. FRASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits, 



No. 109. 



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



of Washington. 



I, ALEXANDER McKAY, of North Sydney, in the county of Cape 

 Breton, in the Province of Nova Scotia, formerly of Cape North, in the 

 county of Victoria, in the said province, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I was engaged at Cape North, in said county, from eighteen hun- 

 dred and forty-six till eighteen hundred and sixty-four, in the buying 

 and sealing of fish, and was and still am well acquainted with many 

 Canadian and American fishermen, also with the kinds and habits of 

 fish taken in British waters. 



2. During the period in which I was engaged in the fish business, I 

 had excellent means of knowing the amount offish taken by individual 

 vessels, and say that if the fishing is fair, mackerelmen average six 

 hundred barrels on a trip, and American fishermen generally made 

 three such trips each year. Codfishmen made two trips, and fish from 

 April to the last of October, along from Scaterie to the Magdalene 

 Islands, and take on an average about five hundred quintals ; some get 

 as many as a thousand quintals. 



3. From letters which I have in my possession, and statements which 

 I have from people at Cape North and around Aspy Bay, the cod-fishing 

 has not been so good for twenty years as this season up to this date. 

 At present mackerel are taken in large quantities at Ingouish. 



