AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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From what I have seen, I feel sure that the mackerel fishing around 

 the shores of this island might be a mine of wealth to its inhabitant* 

 as well as to those of the other British provinces, and I trust if we HUC- 

 ceed in our efforts this will yet be found to be the case. 



The water close to the shore is now absolutely teeming with mackerel 

 in the finest condition, and this entirely withiu three miles of the laud, 

 so that by keeping the foreigners at that distance the shore become* a 

 vast and valuable preserve for the fishermen of the British province*. 

 I have, &c., 



COLIN Y. CAMPBELL, 



Commander. 

 His Excellency Sir ALEXANDER BANNERMAN, 



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No. 17. 



REGISTRY OF THE COURT OF VICK-ADMIRALTV, 



Charlotte Joirn, October C, 1S52. 



A return of American vessels detained and prosecuted in this court for a notation of the con- 

 vention made between the Government of Great Britain and the United Statn of America, 

 in the year A. D. 1818, and prosecuted in this court. 



* Subsequently condemned. 



WILLIAM SWABEY, Reyittrar. 



In addition to this return, the schooner Golden Eule of Gloucester, 

 United States, was detained by the Telegraph, Lieutenant Chetwynd, 

 and brought into Charlotte Town. Before she was delivered over to the 

 proper authorities in terms of the imperial statute, Vice- Admiral Sir 

 George Seymour arrived in Her Majesty's steam-sloop Basilisk, to whom 

 the master of the Golden Kule appealed, stating he was part owner of 

 the schooner, and would be ruined if she was condemned. The admiral 

 on the 23d August left authority with the lieutenant-governor to direct 

 Lieutenant Chetwynd to liberate the schooner, provided the captain 

 acknowledged the violation of the convention, and that his liberation 

 was an act of clemency on the part of the commander-iu-chief. Bartlett, 

 the captain of the Golden Eule, left such an acknowledgment in writing, 

 which was forwarded to Sir George Seymour, along with an addition on 

 a question from the lieutenant-governor, that he had stood inshore to 

 fish, mistaking the Telegraph tender for one of his country men's schoon- 

 ers. 



A. BANNERMAN, 



Lieutenant- Governor. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, October 11, 1852. 

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