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AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Ljnn is a place which has nothing to do with the fishing busi- 

 ness ? A. Yes ; it is a manufacturing town, and is engaged in the shoe 

 business. 



Q. Beverly has entirely ceased to be interested in the fishing busi- 

 ness? A. Yes ; almost. It has now gone into the shoe business. 



Q. Marblehead was the first fishing-place in the United States ? A. 

 I think so ; but it is gone now into manufacturing. Beverly and Mar- 

 blehead were formerly large fishing-places, but the towns above men- 

 tioned are now all manufacturing places. 



Q. Did you make up statistics in reference to the fishing business for 

 the Centennial ? A. I did. 



Q. And you spent a good deal of time on them ? A. Yes. 



Q. And they were presented to the Centennial Commission? A. Yes. 



Q. Can you give us some statistics with relation to the fishing-towns 

 of Massachusetts, showing what the effect of this different system of 

 fishing in the bay has been, as far as you can, on the fishing business 

 of Massachusetts ? A. I have a table showing the valuation of the prin- 

 cipal fishing-ports of Massachusetts other than Gloucester. It is as 

 follows: 



Table shou-ing the valuation of the principal fishing ports or toicns of Massachusetts, other 

 than Gloucester, in 1875, as compared with 1870. 



Q. You have taken every fishing town in that particular State ! A. 

 Yes; every town which I knew had 'vessels engaged in fishing in tbe 

 whole commonwealth, except Gloucester. 



Q. Were these statistics made up by you before you knew anything 

 about the meeting of this Tribunal, and without any reference to it 

 whatever? A. These were made up here from the books which I have 

 with me. 



Q. And you made up yonr statistics for the purpose of the Centen- 

 nial ? A. Yes; and I have also other statistics. 



Q. You were very thorough in your pFeparation of them for the Cen- 

 tennial ? A. I tried to be so. 



