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barrels ? A. We might have caught more than that. It might be 200 

 barrels. 



Q. And then 200 off Sydney ? A. Yes ; we caught them there. 



Q. But you did not succeed at Prince Edward Island that year f A. 

 No; nothing at all. 



Q. And at Point Miscou, you did not do anything? A. No. 



Q. What is the tonnage of your vessel ? A. This vessel, the T. G. 

 Curtis, was about 80 tons, new measurement. 



Q. How many hands ? A. Sixteen hands. 



Q. What was the tonnage of the vessels you fished in on the Banks? 

 A. 60, 70, or 80 tons. This vessel lam now in is 70 tons. The one I 

 was in last year and have been in for the last four years was 60 tons. 

 By Mr. Dana : 



Q. Whatever fish you say you caught in 18G5 at Margaree and Sydney 

 was abroad off; that is more than three miles ? A. Those two hundred 

 barrels at Sydney were more than five miles off. 



Q. You were asked as to the mode of getting bait, whether you em- 

 ployed those men that went for herring. Do you pay them wages, or 

 pay them after the fish are caught ? A. We employ them before they go. 



Q. But you don't pay them wages? A. Yes, we have to pay them. 

 If he goes and loses two or three days we have to pay him. 



Q. But do you pay them wages, so much a day ? A. No, so much for 

 the herring. 



Q. Not by the time ? A. No. 



Q. Nor in a round sum of money whether they catch or not. You 

 don't pay them except for the herring they catch ? A. That is all. I 

 pay according to the quantity that I want myself. Sometimes he may 

 haul 200 barrels, and I take what I want. 



Q. You don't pay so much and take all he catches ? A. No, I take 

 what I want, and pay him for what I take. 



Q. You agree upon tbe price before he goes for them? A. Yes. If 

 he has them we take them. Sometimes when we get to Fortune Bay 

 they have them. 



Q. Then the first thing you do is, if they have them to sell, you buy them 

 by the barrel and take them aboard ? A. Y'es. 



Q. And if they haven t them you agree upon the rate per barrel which 

 you pay ? A. Yes. 



Q. You tell him you don't want more than so many ? A. Yes. 



Q. You don't pay them whether they catch or not ? A. Yes ; sometimes, 

 if 1 employ a man to go and catch them, if he loses three or four days 

 sornetio'.es I pay him. 



Q. Are you obliged to do so or is it good nature ? A. Well, I never 

 have employed a man yet but what he got my herring. 



Q. According to your bargain you say you pay himforwhathecatches? 

 A. For wbat we take. 



Q. I mean that. And you won't take any more than you have agreed ? 

 A. No. If it is one barrel I take it. 



Q. Y'ou go into port and want, we will say, 50 barrels. Y'ou can buy 

 30 and want 20 more. Now you tell him you want him to catch you 20 

 barrels, and just give him so much a barrel ? A. Yes, that is agreed be- 

 fore he goes. 



Q. And if he comes back with ten barrels, or but one, you give him so 

 much a barrel for them ? A. If he brings me ten barrels I pay him for 

 ten ; and if he brings me one, I give him the money for one ; if forty, I 

 give him the money for forty. If he brings me more than I want, he 

 can have them himself. 



