AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3001 



31. What is the amount and value of colonial cargoes of lish of all 

 descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States ? Cannot 

 say. 



32. For all No. 1 and No. 2 mackerel, for the larger part of the fat 

 herring, and for all No. 1 salmon, does not the United State* afford the 

 only market. Yes, the only market foreign to the Provinces. 



33. If you know what amount of duties in annually paid to tbe 

 United States on fish and fish oil imported from Canada, which are to 

 be made free under the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, please 

 state them annually, and by classes, from 1854 to 1*72, inclusive. 

 Dont know. 



34. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid in Canada 

 on fish and fish-oil imported from the United States, which are to made 

 free under the provisions of the said Treaty, please state them annually, 

 and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. 



35. The object of these inquiries is to ascertain whether the rights in 

 respect of fishing, and fishermen, and fish, which were granted tolireat 

 Britain by the Treaty of Washington, are or are not a just equivalent 

 for the rights in those respects which were granted by said Treaty to 

 the United States. If you know anything bearing upon this subject 

 which you have not already stated in reply to previous queKtUuiM, 

 please state it as fully as if you had been specially inquired of in respect 

 of it. 



I do solemnly, sincerely & truly swear that the foregoing Statements 

 are true & correct to the best of my knowledge & belief. So help me 

 God. 



E G. WILLAU1) 

 Sworn to before me 



M N RICH Dep. Collector of Customs (SEAL.) 

 June 2, 72 



No. 8. 

 [CONFIDENTIAL.] 



QUESTIONS RESPECTING THE FISHERIES TO BE PKO- 



POUNDED TO - ON BEHALF OF THE L'NITK 



STATES. 



1. What is your name and age, and in what town and State do you 

 reside ? Geo Trefethen, age forty-three. Portland Maine 



2. What opportunities have you had for becoming acquai 

 the American and Canadian Atlantic sea-fisheries, and the i 

 catch of the different kinds of fish ? I am a wholesale deal 

 Pickled have been in the business twentyone years in Fort 

 ous to which worked at curing fish from my youth up. Am 

 in Six fishing Schoones and have owned more or less 



mv father has been in the business sixty years 



3. Can vou give the names of other persons in your neif 

 who have also had the opportunity of obtaining similar infoni 

 so, please give some such name. W. S. Dana, A. G. Sterlu 

 Trefethen E. G. Willard and many others 



4. A copv of the Treaty between Great Britain and the 

 known as the Treaty of Washington, is hereto annexed 

 amine articles 18 to 22 inclusive, and state that you have i 

 have 



