AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3309 



made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him sub- 

 scribed. 



CYRUS STORY, 

 Notary Public in and for said County. 



No. 240. 



I, William Parsons, 2nd, of Gloucester, in the State of Massachusetts, 

 on oath depose and say, that I am senior member of the firm of William 

 Parsons, 2nd, & Co., owners and fitters of schooner GevHl Burnside, that 

 said schooner went to the Gulf of St. Lawrence from said firm only two 

 seasons 1864 and 1865; that in 1864 I find in the crew list of said 

 schooner the name of J. McDonald whose share of the trip in said 

 schooner was $121.60 ; the vessels share was $2,242.84 ; that said vessel 

 was engaged in making her one voyage in 1864, from August 1st to 

 November 10th, and packed out 462 barrels of mackerel. 



WM. PARSONS, 2nd. 

 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 



ESSEX, ss., GLOUCESTER, Sept. 21st, 1877. 



Then personally appeared the above named William Parsons, 2nd, 

 and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true, 

 before me, 



DAVID W. LOW, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 241. 



I, Solomon Pool, a resident of Gloucester, in the State of Massachu- 

 setts, on oath, depose and say, that I was formerly of the firm^of Pool 

 and Cunningham and part owner and fitter of the schooner Daniel Web- 

 ster, that I have examined the books of said firm and find that said 

 schooner in the year 1859 made two trips to the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 after mackerel, that she was engaged from the last of June till Novem- 

 ber 23rd; that from her first trip was packed two hundred and fifry-one 

 and one-half barrels (251) only. Her net stock amounting to $1,936.72, 

 one half of which was -shared among her crew. That from her second 

 trip to the Bay, was packed twenty (20) barrels of mackerel only. Her 

 net stock amounting to $164.10, one half of which was shared among 

 her crew. 



That I have looked for the name of James or Joseph Campbell on my 

 books, and cannot find it neither name appearing on them. 



SOLOMON POOL, 



Subscribed and sworn to by above named Solomon Pool, this day 

 of September, A. D., 1877, before me. 



DAVID W. LOW, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 242. 



GLOUCESTER, October 10th, 1877. 



I, Benjamin Swim of Gloucester, Mass., on oath depose and say, that 

 I was born at Barrington, Nova Scotia, am 27 years of age, and am 

 now Master of schooner Sarah C. Pi/le, of Gloucester, and have been 

 since April of this year have been engaged in codfishing during that 

 time, have landed 150,000 Ibs. of codfish and about 3,000 Ibs. of hali- 

 but; and caught them all, both codfish and halibut, on Western Banks. 



