AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 223i> 



Q. Will you state what the profit is ? A. That varies according to 

 the price of the different articles, of course. I should judge it leaves 

 a profit of 50c. a barrel. There is considerable labor in it. We have 

 to hire cullers and pay them 50c. an hour at that time. 



Q. Is it 50c. clear of all expenses! A. Yes ; at that time. 



Q. When you spoke of the berths, I did not understand whether the 

 captain charged the men for the berths ? A. That is optional with the 

 captain ; there is no rule. The captain makes his own arrangements 

 about the berths ; it is not a matter for the owners. 



Q. Is the selling of berths a perquisite of the captain ! A. It belongs 

 to the captain. 



Q. Your statement with regard to the schooner Mohenia differs some- 

 what from the statement of Macdonnell. You say she made one trip 

 only in 1859. Turn up your book and show me how you are able to 

 swear to that from your book ! A. All the trips and settlements with 

 the crews are put in this book, and there is only one trip entered. She 

 started late for the bay and it was a very hard year for mackerel. 



Q. Do you speak from your personal knowledge or do you simply 

 form your opinion from the book ? A. Both. I have a very distinct 

 recollection of the voyage. I was part owner of the vessel. 



Q. Principally from the book ? A. I spoke from recollection, and 

 also from the book. 



Q. Are you enabled to contradict Macdonnell from recollection ? A. 

 I find there is no account of any other voyage in the book, and I know 

 by refreshing my memory that he did not do it. 



Q. I suppose you did not see the book. Are you able from memory 

 alone to contradict Macdonnell? A. Not so firmly as I can now. My 

 memory is refreshed .by the whole book. 



Q. I am drawing your attention to 1859. A. There is a trip for cod- 

 fish July 1, 1859, schooner Mohenia. That is the last trip she made 

 before she went to the bay. It took about one week and a half to fit 

 out. 



Q. On July 1, 1859, she came in with a catch of codfish ? A. Yes. 



Q. On November 25 she packed the trip of mackerel of which you 

 have spoken ? A. Yes. 



Q. How are you able to state that she did not make a trip before 

 that ? A. Because she did not bring any home, and because she was 

 not put in the book. 



Q. If the trip was packed by somebody else, would it necessarily ap- 

 pear in that book ? A. Yes. I part owner. 



Q. Did you pack all Captain Laytou's vessels?- -A. T\vo-fi 

 them. 



Q. You owned part of the vessel ? A. Yes. 



Q. You are of opinion there was only one trip made that year : 

 Yes; I have no doubt of it. 



Q. Does the book show the number of wash-barrels? A. .No; the 

 number of packed barrels. 

 By Mr. Foster : 



These are the wholesale prices current of mackerel, froui the Boston 

 Daily Advertiser, of September 24, 1877. They are as follows : 



Mackerel, bay : 3s, $8 and $10; Is, $10 and $18; 2s, $11 and $13. 

 Mackerel, shore : Is. $17 and $20 ; 2s, $11 and $13 ; 3s, $< and I 



Q. Will you tell me how the people, who make up prices current, fi 

 whether a particular lot of mackerel are bay or shore mackerel 

 They generally know where the vessels have beeu, but they deci 

 the quality by examination. 



