3324 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 



COUNTY OF ESSEX, SS. GLOUCESTER, Sept. 3d, 1877. 



Then personally appeared the above named Charles Martin, and made 

 oath, that all the statements by him above made, are true to the best of 

 his knowledge and belief, before me, 



DAVID W. LOW. 



(L. S.) Notary Public. 



No. 258. 



I, William Parsons, 2nd, senior member of the firm of William Par- 

 sons 2nd & Co., on oath depose and say, that I am part owner and litter, 

 with others of said firm, of the schooner Pescadore (Pescador) ; that I 

 have examined the books of said firm and find that James Hewlett made 

 two trips in said schooner, in the year 1867; that said schooner packed 

 out 463f barrels of mackerel; that the shares of said vessel was $2,701; 

 that said Howlett's shares was $224.37. 



I further depose and say that 1 have also examined the books of said 

 firm in regard to Daniel McPhee, in schooner Messina, and find his name 

 as one of the crew, in 1865 only, he not having been in her in 1863. 

 Said schooner packed out in 1865, when said McPhee was in her, two 

 hundred and sixty barrels of mackerel (260 bbls.), his share amounting 

 to $98.21 ; the vessels' share was $1,745.19. 



WM. PAKSONS 2ND. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



COUNTY OF ESSEX ss. GLOUCESTER, Sept. 14, 1877. 



Subscribed and sworn to by above named William Parsons 2nd, 

 before me, 



DAVID W. LOW, 



(L. S.) Notary Public. 



No. 259. 



I, Solomon Jacobs, of Gloucester, Mass., on oath, depose and say, that 

 I am Master of the schr. Moses Adams, of Gloucester, and have just 

 arrived from a mackerel voyage to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, having 

 caught 190 bbls. of mackerel on the trip, one-third of them we caught 

 on Bank Orphan, the rest at different places, and about 20 barrels 

 within the three mile limit. I am very sure that the number caught 

 within three mile limit will not exceed 25 barrels. I should judge that 

 150 of the 190 bbls. are number ones, as they are good-sized mackerel, 

 having caught the most of them well up north in the Gulf have not 

 yet sold, but expect to get $16 for 1's, $10.50, and $7.00 for them. I 

 have been two months on the trip. 



The cost of the trip is as follows : 



Charter, $500 per Month $1, 000 



Provisions, &c., 300 



Barrels, Inspection, &c., $1.75 330 



Captain's Commissions, 4.00 per cwt. 106 



$1, 736. 00 

 Owner's Profit 1, 278. 25 



$457. 75 lost by the voyage. 



