AWARD OP THE FISHERY OOMMI8IOX. 3211 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of comlm-ting Amen al 



enes 



When I, in the year 1861 became engaged in the liNhin^ tumim-** o,* 

 Bay of St. Lawrence was considered the best tishing grout"! f'r mark 

 erel, and I sent my vessels there, but the business wa not n>iniinrr*ini> 

 In the spring of 18G7 1 concluded I had lost enough in.in.-x thrrr Smrr 

 that time none that I have controlled have gone there (One of hirh | 

 owned a part went, I think, in 1870 but she did not pay her lull 

 abandoning the Bay of St. Lawrence the business ha*, 'with me, Iwrti rr 

 munerative, I own four times the tonnage and value now tl..ii I did io 

 1867. Not one of our Captains or crews have to mv rvcollrcitou, 

 proposed a trip to the Bay within the last live years 



C W A 841 ATT 



Sworn aud subscribed to before me, this Sixth day of June 1H77 



THOMAS WAltl: 



.flintier of Ike 



STATE OF MAINE. 

 HANCOCK, ss. 



I, Hutson B. Saunders, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court*, in *au! 

 County, certify that Thomas Warren Ksquire is and wan at thr d*< 

 of his Certificate an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for imid Coonijr. 

 duly commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that the Mignatur* 

 to the paper annexed, purporting to be his, is genuine, and ibat be ui 

 duly authorized and empowered, by the laws of said State, to ukr ac 

 knowledgment of Deeds, Assignments, and Powers of Attorney, and to 

 administer oaths. 



In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the 

 Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, thin Sixth day o 

 June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aud jwvmtjr- 

 seven 



(Seal.) HUTSON B SAFNDKHS Clerk. 



No. 138. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, composing the firm l 

 Fitch of N London Conn have been engaged in the I 

 for the past twenty years, at New London Conn and 

 Washington Treaty, so called, has been in effect, our vw 

 employed as follows : 



No. of Vessels employed 



No. of Trips made 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence 



No. of Barrels of Mackerel from Bay St. Lawrence 

 No. of Barrels of Mackerel caught within :t miles of 



Magdalene Islands 



Average value of Vessels each 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c Two Tbo, 



Average value of Insurance 



Average value of Captains' aud Crews' 



_ Two Humlrrl IfcJU 



;< , for curing aud |*ckiufi.ta- 

 -vcii;t? vmue 01 vviJiti^cn, i i--- 

 eluding expenses of Clerks, Proprietors lbr on -bor^ 





