1496 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



cere have therefore, in my judgment, properly notified fishermen against 

 anv attempt to infringe the treaty, and by so doing also disobey the 

 British and colonial laws in reference thereto, in which the very same 

 terms are nsed. 



GEO. G. WELLESLY, 



Vice- Admiral. 

 His Honor Judge JACKSON, 



United States Consul, Halifax. 



No. 39. 

 Captain Hardinge to Vice-Admiral Wellesley. 



VALOROUS, HALIFAX, September 17, 1870. 



SIR : Agreeably to article 3 of your instructions, dated 3d May last r 

 I have the honor to make the following report: 



Owing to the seizure of the schooner S. G. Marshall, on the 31st July, 

 the ship has been much detained at Charlotte Town in prosecuting her 

 to condemnation. 



In consequence of the evidence obtained of various vessels in the em- 

 ploy of and belonging to Mr. J. C. Hall, an American citizen, doing bu- 

 siness in Charlotte Town, being illegally registered, and wearing Eng- 

 lish colors, to enable them to prosecute the inshore fishery, iny attention 

 has been greatly given to the detection of these irregular vessels. The 

 presence of a ship of war at Charlotte Town, I consider, would be of 

 great assistance in exercising supervision and checking these frauds 

 on the statutes. 



This port, being on no fishing station, is rarely visited, and, in conse- 

 quence, the officials, to whom it was my duty to apply, were unable to 

 render me the assistance I required. 



In exercising a supervision over the shipping here, which is much 

 wanted owing to the class of persons who form the customs authorities, 

 and who here are appointed solely from political reasons, the irregular 

 vessels would in time be suppressed. 



It must be remembered that these irregularly-owned vessels are fitted 

 out to obtain their cargoes in a short space of time, e. g., the S. G. Mar- 

 shall had on board two seines, one of 200 fathoms long and 18 feet deep, 

 the other 100 fathoms in length and 12 feet in depth. The cost of the 

 first one was about 400*., the smaller one about 200?. In addition she 

 had four boats. 



In evidence, the master stated that if he had remained where he was 

 taken he would have filled his vessel in forty -eight hours. 



With regard to the fishery on No. 6 station, I have, owing to the lim- 

 ited space of time-actively employed, but little to record. 



The cod-tishery was a rood average catch from the Bay of Chalenr 

 along the coast to Peter Point. 



The mackerel fishery was hardly an average, if the American fisber- 



ien are to be believed. The English vessels made good catches off 



t ami other places close to the shore where the fish schooled, 

 tins, I do not mean it to be inferred that the American fishermen 

 lab inside the limit and share in all the advantages of the in- 

 shore fishery. 



