AWARD OF THK FISHERY COMMISSION. 2061 



tbese vessels to be able to land on the coast of Nova Scotia. Newfound- 

 land, or Cape Breton to get \bait and go back? A. T have known vc.- 

 sels come down and spend a month and not got bait and then go back. 



Q. Is that any answer to my question 1 A. I cannot Kay whether it 

 is any privilege or not. I do not know. 



Q. Can you swear that you have no opinion, either ? 'i nat is tue qm-H 

 tion I put. A. I have never formed any opinion about it. 



Q. And you won't form one now for me, will you ? I siipuo.st* it wouM 

 not take any length of time. Suppose you sit down and form nn opin- 

 ion? A. I do not form opinions without evidence to show mo which 

 way to decide. 



Q. In point of fact, then, I understand you to swear that >ou have no 

 facts before you upon which you can form an opinion and that you have 

 formed none? A. I have none, as far as the Cape Ann fishermen are 

 concerned, that I am interested in. 



Q. As far as your fishermen are concerned, the> do ootgu tl-i ? A. 

 Where f 



Q. Do they use this privilege I mean your own yr,j 

 well, they go to Newfoundland sometimes. 



Q. Is that a privilege ? Perhaps you have formed an opinion about 

 that? A. I never had but one vessel go in, and that was disastrous to 

 me. 



Q. Was it in consequence of that privilege that she met with disas- 

 ter? A. She was out late and didn't come in until Christmas. It 

 she 



Mr. THOMSON proceeds to put a question. 



Mr. TRESCOT. Let him finish his answer. 



Mr. THOMSON. 1 didn't ask him about vessels going in. lie answered 

 my question and said he had only one vessel that went in and that wax 

 disastrous. I asked him if he considered that disaster ovei took him 

 because of this privilege. 



Mr. FOSTER. He was proceeding to answer that very question 



By Mr. Thomson : 



Q. Do you think this disaster overtook you because of this privi- 

 lege ? A. No, certainly, because she would have got her bait and taken 

 her fish and come home if the squid had been there. 



Q. You wish us to understand that if you had not been tempi* 

 this privilege your vessel would not have goffered the loss 



O. Do you say for that reason that this privilege is a im-re deoeptl 

 and a snare? A. I think as far as Provincetown is concerned I 

 worthless. 



Q. Why is it worthless; because they send no vessels 

 Because the vessels that go with salt bait return quick aiu 



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Q. Then the Provincetown vessels don't avail themselves of thUpri 

 lege ? A. They do some. 



Q. Those that go with salt bait ? A. No. 



Q. Didn't you tell me just now it was worthless, because t 

 with salt bait and returned with fall fares !-A. I do say 



(J. Don't you want the Commissioners to underst 

 Provincetown vessels go with salt bait T-A. I v 

 that those that go with salt bait make better voyage 

 better fares. 



Q. Do any Proviucetowu vessels go for fiesh I 

 fresh bait sometimes leaving Provincetown. 



