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AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



coast. I do not see how they could carry on their great cod-fisheries if 

 they had not the privilege of getting bait and ice from us. All bait is 

 got* inshore, and the great part of it very close to the shore. 



AGNUS GILLIES. 



Sworn to at Port Hood, in the county of Inverness, this 23d day of 

 Julv, A. D. 1877, before me. 



JOHN McKAY, J. P. 



No. 274. 



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



of Washington. 



I, JAMES O. FRASER, of Saint John's, Newfoundland, having been 

 duly sworn, do depose and say that I have carefully examined the ac- 

 counts of the government of the said island, and compiled therefrom 

 the cost of erecting and maintaining the light-houses and fog alarms 

 between Cape Ray and Cape Eace, and from thence to Quirpon, and 

 that the annexed statement marked A, contains a true statement of the 

 average annual expenditure for the maintenance of said light-houses 

 and fog-alarms, and as deponent believes of the original cost of the said 

 light-houses and fog-alarms. 



In answer to Mr. Foster's question, I say that caplin continue upon 

 the Newfoundland coast for a period of from five to seven weeks. 



Halifax, Nova Scotia, fourth day of September, A. D., 1877. 



JAMES O. FRASER. 



Maintaining light-houses and fog-ichislles on the coasts of Newfoundland, between Cape Ray 

 and Cape Eace, and from thence to Quirpon. 



A. 



