AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3251 



but very little before the month of July because up to that time the 

 mackerel are poor aud lean I believe that if the Provincials had as much 

 enterprise aud invested as much capital in fishing & fishing vessels as 

 the Americans that the privilege of fishing in Am. waters north of the39th 

 degree of latitude would be as valuable to them as the right to fish in 

 Provincial waters is to the Americans There can be no doubt that the 

 presence of American fishermen in the waters of the Provinces is of 

 very great benefit to the People thereof as they expend a great deal, of 

 money for clothing, provisions & supplies of all kinds, and I make this 

 solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true aud by 

 virtue of an Act passed in the 37th year of Her Majesty's reign entituled 

 "An Act for the suppression of voluntary and extra judicial Oaths 



Cape Canso June 16th 1877. 



CAPT GEOEGE BUNKER 



In presence of 



OSCAR MALMROS 



U. 8. Consul 



I Thomas C Cook of Cape Canso in the Province of Nova Scotia No- 

 tary Public do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern that the 

 above and foregoing declaration and Statement was made and sub- 

 scribed in my presence by the above named George Bunker on the day 

 of the date thereof 



In testimony whereof I the said Notary have hereunto subscribed my 

 name and affixed my Notarial Seal at Cape Canso aforesaid this Six- 

 teenth day of June in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hun- 

 dred and Seventy Seven 



(Seal.) THOS. C. COOK 



Not. Pub. 

 No. 178. 



Francis Marmeau of Arichat being sworn says : I have been engaged 

 in Arichat in General Merchandising for about 22 years and am well 

 acquainted with the general trade of this Port and with everything 

 connected with the fisheries I have also been in the habit of supplying 

 American fishing vessels calling at this Port the average number of 

 American fishing vessels calling at this Port during the last five years 

 was about two hundred the year they call for bait and ice aud get the 

 former at this place or on the coast of this Island i. e Isle Madame 

 take one with another and each vessel during that time has bought at 

 each call about sixty dollars worth of bait the bait consists in fresh 

 herring and mackerel, the herring costs them in the spring about 50 

 cents a hundred and from the 1st of July the herring costs about SljVo 

 a hundred for mackerel they pay about 5 or 6 dollars a barrel the 

 Am fishing vessels never catch there bait here in the bay, they always 

 buy it for ice each vessel during said period has expended at this Port 

 about from fifteen to twenty-five dollars at $2 1 5 p a ton for the ice the 

 American fishing vessel", calling here in the spring aud summer don't 

 buy anything else here than ice and bait about 10 Am. herring fishing 

 vessels call I. ere late in the fall on their way to the Newfoundland shore 

 and at that time they do not buy any bait or ice but buy considerable 

 quantities of beef pork mutton potatoes and country wolleii cloth manu- 

 factured by the country people butter and other articles, each vessel 

 expends here on an average for those articles in the fall before going to 

 the fisheries for the winter trip fully five hundred dollars or over the 

 entire number of young fishermen who annually are engaged by the 



