3046 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



33. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid to the United 

 States on h'sh 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. The Statis- 

 tical department of the Government can, perhaps, answer this. I can 

 only estimate based on answer to question 31, to wit : 



Say on Mackerel $200, 000 



Cod. '--. 60,000 



Herring 50, 000 



Haddock 20,000 



Fish oil 32, 000 



Aggregate 362, 000 



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

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

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

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

 or fish oil being shipped to Canada. 



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

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

 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 questions, please 

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

 I consider the treaty of more value to the British Provinces than to the 

 United States, for the following reasons. 



1st for the privilege of fishing on the Coast of the U. S. 



2d the marketing and shipping their fish free. 



3d the furnishing of our fishing vessels with supplies. 



STATE OF NEW YORK 

 CITY & COUNTY OF NEW YORK, j ss ' 



Caleb Nickerson of the City of New York being duly sworn deposes 

 and says, That the answers made by him to the several interrogatories 

 as above, have been duly considered by him, and that the same are based 

 on his knowledge and experience of the subject of the fisheries, and that 

 he believes the same to be true so far as can be ascertained without 

 official statistical figures. 



CALEB NICKEKSON. 

 Sworn before me 



This 13 day of June 1873. (Seal.) 



I B GREGG Notary Public. 



No. 20. 

 [CONFIDENTIAL.] 



QUESTIONS RESPECTING THE FISHERIES TO BE PRO*- 



POUNDED TO ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED 



STATES. 



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



Horatio Babson ; thirty six; Gloucester, Mass. 



2. N\ hat opportunities have you had for becoming acquainted with 



