AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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foregoing statement, and made oath that the same was true and correct 

 to his best knowledge and belief. 



Witness my hand and Notarial Seal at Newburyport, in said County 

 of Essex, this Twenty-Fourth day of September, A. D., 1877. 

 [L. S.] B. F. BARTLETT, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 252. 



Statement ot the Number of Barrels of Mackerel Inspected by George 

 D. Thurlow, Inspector of Fish, for the Port of Newburyport, Mass., dur- 

 ing the years 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876: 



GEORGE D. THURLOW. 

 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, 



COUNTY OF ESSEX, SS. 



Before me, E. F. Bartlett, Notary Public, duly commissioned and 

 qualified, personally appeared the above named George D. Thurlow, per- 

 sonally known to be an inspector of fish, and whom I believe to be a 

 man of truth and veracity, and made oath that the foregoing statement 

 by him subscribed was true and correct, to his best knowledge and 

 belief. 



Witness my hand and Notarial Seal, this Twenty-Fourth day of Sep- 

 tember, A. D., 1877. 



(L. S.) E. F. BARTLETT. 



Notary Public. 

 No. 253. 



The following is a statement of the number of barrels of herring 

 bought by the several firms in Gloucester during the year 1876 ; said 

 herring having been caught by the inhabitants on the shores of the 

 United States: 



if umber of Barrels. 



15, 733 



7,500 



450 



2,000 



2,500 



1,500 



6,000 



1,492 



700 



Name of Firm. 



D. C. & H. Babson. 

 Gloucester Fish Co. 

 James H. Stetson. 

 Geo. P. Trigg & Co. 

 Geo. Perkins. 

 Simon Merchant. 

 Proctor, Trask & Co., 

 John Pew & Son. 

 Clark & Somes. 



37, 975 



