1284 AWARD OF THE FISHEEY COMMISSION. 



ship their cargoes, because it enables them to keep 011 the fishing, 

 grounds, and to make an extra voyage. 



22. It is also a great advantage to them to be able to procure bait iu 

 our inshores. 



23. The Americans could not carry on the cod and halibut fisheries 

 without the privilege of resorting to our inshores to procure bait. 



24. It is a great advantage to the American fishermen to be able to 

 land to procure ice and snow to preserve their bait. 



25. It is of no advantage to us to be able to fish in American waters. 

 I never knew of any of our vessels ever going there to fish. 



26. The privilege of transshipping cargoes is of great advantage to 

 the Americans, because they can double their fares ; in fact, It is worth 

 a load to them. And the privilege to trawlers to get bait in our inshores 

 is worth their fisheries. 



27. The privilege granted to Americans to fish in our waters injures us 

 to a great extent by bringing us in competition with men who are a great 

 deal better equipped to take fish than we are, and because this extra 

 number of men destroys fish. I have often heard the Americans say 

 that they couldn't carry on the fisheries in our waters without catching 

 bait here. 



MICHAEL McINNIS. 



Sworn to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, at Port 

 Daniel, in the county of Bonaventure, Province of Quebec, this the 23d 

 day of July, A. D. 1877, before me. 



N. LA VOTE, 

 Justice of the Peace, Province of Quebec. 



No. 162. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, to icit : 



The honorable JAMES JOHNSTONE ROGERSON, of St. John's, receiver- 

 general and collectorof customs for the Island of Newfoundland, inaketh 

 oath and saith that the annexed statement, marked A, is a correct and 

 true statement of the matter and things to which it refers, the same 

 having been compiled from the customs returns and other authentic rec- 

 ords of the said Island of Newfoundland. 



JAMES J. ROGEESON, 

 Receiver-General and Customs Collector. 



Sworn before ine, at Saint John's, aforesaid, this eighth day of June, 

 A. D. 1877. 



J. O. FEASER, 

 Commissioner of Affidavits. 



