2572 AWARD OF THE FISUEEY COMMISSION. 



Q. That is leaving 2 cents a barrel for coopering and putting on 

 board of your schooner! A. Yes. 



Q. The profit on packing out a barrel of mackerel, including all ex- 

 penses what would it amount to, in your judgment ? How much would 

 a man get, clear of what he pays out? A. I think from 10 cents to 15 

 cents a barrel, outside of the inspection. The inspection fee he receives 

 from the purchaser, and it is 10 cents a barrel more. 



Q. Out of that inspection fee 8 cents go to the deputy inspector? A. 

 That comes out of the consumer, I guess. 



Q. Of the fee the deputy inspector gets 8 cents and the inspector gen- 

 eral 2 cents, and he appoints almost any one who will give him the 

 requisite bonds and pay him the 2 cents a barrel. The deputy inspec- 

 tor is responsible for the quality of the mackerel ? A. He is responsi- 

 ble to the purchaser. 



Q. And he is liable, and his bonds are liable, for any deficiency ? A. 

 The general inspector is really the party who is responsible, and he 

 looks to his deputy. If the purchaser thinks the fish are not what they 

 should be, he calls on the inspector-general, and he calls on his deputy 

 and compels him to make it good or looks to his bonds to do so. 

 By Sir Alexander Gait: 



Q. How does the inspector-general know what barrels each deputy 

 has inspected? A. The deputy has his name in full on the brand. 

 By Mr. Foster : 



Q. The inspection mark guarantees that the contents of the cask or 

 barrel shall be up to a certain legal standard ? A. A certain number 

 of pounds have to be there, and the fitness of the mackerel is all in the 

 judgment of the men who select the mackerel, and if the purchaser 

 objects to them, as being not what they should be, it has to be left to a 

 jury of inspectors to decide whether they are of the standard fitted for 

 the brand. 



Q. You estimate that 40 cents a day is the cost of provisioning each 

 inan in a crew ? A. We base that on actual statistics. 



Q. For what purpose were the statistics prepared ? A. For centen- 

 nial purposes, by the different firms. The firms took their books and 

 got out amounts, and we found that 40 cents a day would simply pay. 



Q. You were asked if it was not a supposed voyage of which you 

 have given an account? A. That was a supposed voyage. 



Q. No vessel has come back from the gulf with 400 barrels of mack- 

 erel this year ? A. No one has brought back any such quantity. 



Q. That is a larger quantity that is supposed than has come back 

 from the gulf this year? A. I heard that the Gertie* E. Foster, two 

 days before I came away, had arrived with 300 barrels. I don't know 

 the quantity packed out. 



Q. And in regard to the price at which the mackerel is supposed to 

 be sold ? A. The price of mackerel is the market price the day I left 

 what the trips were sold for. 



Q. On what day did you leave ? A. Friday, 5th. 



Q. So, whether between the 3d and 6th mackerel were caught you 

 could not be very positive ? A. I could not tell. I know the day I 

 came away one vessel got a good haul. 

 By Mr. Davies : 



Q. What are the names of your vessels in the bay ? A. Margie Smith 

 is one. 



Q. Is the Etta Gott the other ? A. Yes; she has made one trip this 

 year. 



