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ruin the fishery ; and unless the Americans got their bait inshore they 

 could uot carry on this trawling on the Banks along our shore. 



GEORGE McLEOD. 



Sworn to at Brooklyn, in the county of Queen's, this 10th day of 

 August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



S. T. N. SELLON, J. P. 



No. 152. 



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



of Washington. 



I, JOHN LLOYD, of Port Mouton, in the county of Queen's, master 

 mariner, make oath and say as follows: 



1. I have been engaged in the fisheries as master for twenty-seven 

 years. I have fished from Cape Sable, along the southern coast of 

 Nova Scotia, around Cape Breton, on the eastern side of New Bruns- 

 wick, around Prince Edward Island, around the Magdalenes, and on 

 the Labrador coast as far as the north side of Gross Water Bay. I 

 have been engaged a trip every year on the Banks. 



2. In my experience the Americans always enjoyed the same privi- 

 leges as I did myself. In the North Bay the Americans always fished 

 inshore for mackerel, and close into the shore, and it would not pay to 

 go iuto the North Bay to fish unless they could fish inshore. 



3. I have been on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, from Halifax to 

 Cape Negro, for fifteen years now past, and have often told the Ameri- 

 cans where they could procure ice and bait. In the harbors along from 

 Halifax to Cape Negro the Americans procure ice and bait wherever 

 they can get it. Without this bait and ice it would be impossible for 

 the Americans to carry on the Bank fishing, and this they have often 

 themselves told me. I to-day told an American schooner that he could 

 get bait in this harbor, and lie is anchored here now. 



JOHN LLOYD. 



!* Sworn to at Port Mouton, in the county of Queen's, this 17th day of 

 August, A. D. 1877, before me. 



S. T. N. SELLON, J. P. 



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



of Washington. 



1. ROBERT J. MCDONALD, of Port Jollie, in the county of Queen's, 

 fisherman, maketh oath and say as follows : 



1; I have been engaged in the fisheries for twenty years. I have 

 fished along the American coast from near Philadelphia to Gross Water 

 Bay, on the Labrador coast, and am well acquainted with the inshore 

 fisheries in Queen's County. 



2. Some years, while fishing in the North Bay, I found the Canadian 

 mackerel was better than American, and some years the American was 

 better. 



3. Many Canadian vessels get clams in this harbor for bait, from forty 

 to fifty vessels every year. I always found the clams obtained in this 

 harbor as good as American clams. We used the clams here for taking 

 codfish with hand lines, and still use them for this purpose. We also 



