3226 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Xo. 151. 



I, Joseph Towuseud do solemnly declare that I reside at Louisburg, 

 C. B., that since 1S63 I have beeii employed as Clerk and in the absence 

 of the Principal as the manager of the business of first Mr. William E. 

 Gardener of this place and afterwards of the " Louisburg Supply Com- 

 pany r to which Mr. Gardener transferred or sold his said business that 

 said business from 1863 up to the present time has been in the habit of 

 supplying American fishing vessels calling at this Port, one half of them 

 about being supplied by the above business in which I was and am em- 

 ployed and one half by Mr Wm. H. McAlpine of this place that the 

 number of American fishing vessels calling here has averaged during 

 the last 5 or 6 years at least one hundred, one half of them codfishing 

 the other half herring fishing vessels that the average expenditure per 

 vessel per season during said period has been about 825, perhaps a little 

 more, at this port that the American fishing vessels are in the habit 

 of calling at different ports of the Maritime Provinces before they call 

 and after they have called at this port and of buying supplies at all or 

 most of the Ports where they call that the supplies purchased by them 

 at our Port consist in ice, bait, small stores, beef, mutton and occasionally 

 in other items to a small extent that I think that the presence of Ameri- 

 can fishermen on our coasts a great pecuniary advantage to the people 

 thereof i. e. of the Provinces while I am not aware that it, that is the 

 presence of American fishermen on our coasts is in any repect injurious 

 to the interests of the Provinces, and I make this solemn declaration 

 conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Act 

 passed in the 37th year of Her Majesty's reign entitled an Act for the 

 suppression of voluntary and extra judicial oaths. 



Louisburg C. B. July 17th 1877. 



JOSEPH TOWNSEND 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE AT PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA 



LOUISBURG C. B. July 17th 1877 



I hereby certify that at said Louisburg on this 20th day of July 1877 

 the above named Joseph Townseud made and subscribed before me the 

 foregoing Solemn Declaration 

 Attested: OSCAR MALMROS 



U. S. Consul 

 No. 152. 



I, James Peeples of Pirate Cove, Guysboro County do solemnly de- 

 clare : that I have been a fisherman for the last 33 years I have been 

 employed during that time as well on American as on Nova Scotia fish- 

 ing vessels, mostly on American vessels prosecuting the Mackerel fish- 

 ery in the Gulf of St Lawrence, for the last 5 or 6 years I should have 

 said I have not been employed in fishing according to my experience 

 American fishing vessels make no use or but very little use of the privi- 

 lege of drying their nets on the Coasts of the Dominion of Canada and do 

 not at all cure their fish on these coasts I do not think that Provincial 

 fishermen catch less fish on account of having a fleet of American vessels 

 fishing along side of them I rather think the Provincial fishermen catch 

 more fish by fishing alongside of an American fleet because the quantity 

 of bait thrown keeps the fish on the surface of the water I have been 

 in American fishing vessels prosecuting the fishery in the Gulf of St Law- 

 rence that have spent from 1300 to 1500 dollars per season in the Provinces 

 in case they had to refit after landing their first catch for re shipment 



