2030 AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. The British counsel say you are reading your answers. Will you 

 explain what measures you took to refresh your memory, and ascertain 

 what trips you made, and what catches of mackerel you took. A. I 

 had my old account- books' and bills filed away in my garret. I went 

 up, got them down, and overhauled them, and then I went to the in- 

 spectors and got from their books where they landed. I made a mem- 

 orandum in this book. 



FRIDAY, September 21. 



The Conference met. 



The examination of Mr. BARZILLAI KEMP was continued. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Question. At the adjournment yesterday you were giving a rapid 

 statement of your mackerel trips to the Gulf of St. Lawrence during 

 successive years, and I think the last year you stated was 1856 ? 

 Answer. Yes. 



Q. In 1857 what 'lid you do? A. I made two trips in the gulf. 



Q. Go right oil with your statemant. A. We caught them on Bradley 

 and at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Where did you catch the first and where the second trip ? A. The 

 first trip on Bradley aud the second at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. How many barrels did you take each trip aud how many in all ? 

 A. Two hundred and seventy-five barrels each trip. 



Q. You were still on the same schooner ? A. Yes ; the Sunbeam. 



Q. In 1858 what were you doing? A. I was on the schooner Watch- 

 man and took 38 barrels. 



Q. Where did you take them ? A. At Magdalen Islands. 



Q. How long were you in getting them '? A. I was six weeks in the 

 bay. 



Q. What did you do the rest of the year I A. I went on our coast. 

 It was a very hard year; it was a bad year for fishing everywhere. 



Q. What result did you have after you left the bay and went on our 

 coast? A. Seventy-five barrels. 



Q. In the course of the season ? A. After the trip to the bay. 



Q. All you succeeded in getting in 1858 were 38 barrels in the gulf 

 and 75 on the United States coast for the whole season ? A. Yes. 



Q. In 1859? A. I made two trips in the schooner John A. Swett. I 

 was not master of that vessel. 



Q. How many barrels did you take each trip ? A. One hundred and 

 seventy barrels each trip. She was a small vessel. 



Q. What tonnage? A. A schooner of some 64 tons, old measure- 

 ment. 



Q. Where were the trips made ? A. The first trip was caught on. 

 Bradley and the next at Magdalen Islands. 



Q. In 1860 what did you do? A. I was in the schooner Gamaliel; I 

 was master. We got 40 barrels. 



Q. Where did you get them ? A. I caught them at Magdalen Isl- 

 ands. 



Q. How long did you take to get them ? A. I have made a mistake; 

 1 caught them on Bradley, not at Magdalen Islands. I was in the bay 

 five or six weeks, and went out. 



Q. Where else did you try for mackerel ? A. I went on our coast. I 

 got, as far as my memory serves me, 700 barrels after I went home. 



Q. After you left the bay you made a number of short trips on our 

 coast? A. Yes. 



Q. They aggregated 700 barrels? A. As nigh as I can judge. 



