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miles of the coast; whence is such profit derived; and in what doe* it 

 consist? I do not think that I would pay one-tenth of One JHT cent 

 for the privilege, in fact all the benefit that any vessel that I own in 

 would derive, would be in being allowed to fish tor about a month innide 

 the limit for Mackerel When the Dominion Govt granted permit* to 

 fish inside the three mile limit to onr fishermen, by the payment of lift y 

 dollars for a vessel, some of our fishermen, payd that amount for the 

 privilege, but when the next year the Dominion Govt raised the amount 

 to One hundred Dollars, very few if any, would pay it, none that I wa* 

 interested did. 



29. Do the American fishermen gain under the Treaty of Washington 

 any valuable rights of lauding to dry nets and cure fish, or to repack 

 them, or to transship cargoes, which were not theirs before ; if so, what 

 are those rights, and what do you estimate them to be worth annually, 

 in the aggregate ? None for the right to land and dry their nets and 

 cure fish ; they may gain something in rights to land and tranvln[. 

 Cargoes but I think the benifits to the people, where they are landed 

 or transshipped would be fully equal to the benifit we derive. 



30. Is not the Treaty of Washington, so far as the fishing clause* 

 are concerned, more or quite as beneficial to the people of the ttritih 

 North American Provinces as to the people of the United States? I, 

 think it is decidedly in favor of of the People of Provinces, the right 

 to bring their fish to our market free of Duty is worth more to them 

 than all they give is worth to us. 



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

 descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States! I do 

 not know. 



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

 herring, and for all No. 1 salmou, does not the United States afford the 

 only market ? It does, and also a large part of the Large Codfish. 



33. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid to the 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 1872, inclusive I do not 

 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 le made 

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

 and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. I do not know. 



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

 respect of fishing, and fishermen, and fish, which were granted to Great 

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



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

 the United States. If you know anything bearing ujioii this 

 which you have not already stated in reply to previous questions 

 state it as fully as if you had been specially inquired ot in resjHM 

 I will state in this connection that I have in my employ a nur 

 natives of Nova Scotia, who now say they shall return 

 the treaty, and with the privilege of sending their 

 free, they can prosecute the business more profitably there thai; 



I solemnly, sincerely & truly swear that the foregoing i 

 are true & correct to the best of my knowledge & 1 



me G d - GEORGE TREFETUEN. 



Sworn before me this 12th day June 1873 



M N RICU Dcp. Collector. 



