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more fish on the Banks and have came home earlier. I have never fished 

 for bait at Newfoundland but have always purchased it and if excluded 

 from purchasing I certainly should not go to Newfoundland to catch it 

 myself. I consider the trade in bait to be of great advantage to the in- 

 habitants of Newfoundland. While at Portugal Cove I paid William 

 Talk, the collector, sixteen 80-100 dollars ($10.80) for light dues, being 

 at the rate of twenty-four cents per ton. and this due is collected from 

 all American fishing vessels visiting Newfoundland. 



ALEX. MCDONALD. 



Sworn before me at Halifax, this 29th day of September, A. D. 

 1877. 



N. H. MEAGHER, 

 yotary Public for the Province of Nova Scotia. 



No. 273. 



1, Alonzo Covey, of Swampscott, in the Commonwealth of Massachu- 

 setts, being duly sworn, do depose and say that I am fifty-three years 

 old, and am the captain of the A. C. Newhall, a fishing vessel of twenty- 

 nine (29) tons, at present in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I have been en- 

 gaged in the fishing business, both as captain and hand, for twenty-five 

 years. 1 have just returned from a trip to "the Bay of St. Lawrence, 

 mackerel fishing. I left Swampscott the 28th day of last July, and ar- 

 rived in the Bay the 7th of August. I first fished near Port Hood, and 

 took four barrels of mackerel six miles from the shore. I t hen took 

 twenty-five barrels twelve miles broad off Mimnigash. Then fished off 

 Skinneack from 5 to 15 miles from the land, and took the balance of my 

 trip there, with the exception of 14 barrels, which were taken between 

 East Cape and Port Hood. I took one hundred and twenty-five barrels 

 in the Bay, all of which were taken more than three miles from land, 

 except five barrels at North Cape taken inshore. This trip has not been 

 successful. The share of the vessel will not more than pay the cost of 

 the outfit. Before this season I have been engaged in fishing on the 

 United States coast, and my trips there have been much more remuner- 

 ative than my present trip to the Bay. 1 do not consider the privilege 

 of fishing within three miles of the Canadian coast of any value to 

 American fisherinen, and I should much prefer to be entirely excluded 

 therefrom, and the former duty of two dollars per barrel to be imposed 

 on the Canadian fish. 



ALONZO COVEY. 



Sworn before me in the City of Hali fax, in the County of Halifax, 

 this 29th day of September, A. D.. 1877. 



ROBT. SEDGEWICK, 



Notary Public. 



No. 274. 



I, Edward N. Wilkins, of Swampscott, in the Commonwealth of Mas- 

 sachusetts, being duly sworn, do depese and say that I am forty-two 

 years old. I have been a fisherman for twenty-five years, and am now one 

 of the crew of the schooner A. C. Newhall, Captain Covey, and have just 

 returned from the Bay of St. Lawrence. We caught 125 barrels of 

 mackerel, all of which were taken more than three miles from the shore 

 with the exception of five barrels taken inshore between North Cape 

 and Mimnigash, Prince Edward Island. Previous to this year I have 

 been in the Bay mackerel fishing twelve seasons, the last trip was in 



