AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3345 



The herring cost us for those caught on the coast of the United States 

 from two dollars and twenty-five cents to two dollars and seventy-five 

 cents per barrel ; that is for the herring, not including the barrel, salt, 

 labor, etc., etc. 



(12,145) twelve thousand one hundred and forty-five barrels were 

 caught on the coast of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Mag- 

 dalen Islands, and Labrador, as follows: 



Barrels. 



Caught at Fortune Bay, Nfld 8, 587 ") 



" " Port Hood, C. B 200 



" " Nova Scotia (coast) 348 V 12,145 



" " Magdalens 510 | 



" " Bay of Islands, Nfld 2, 500 j 



Those caught at Fortune Bay in-paid seventy-five cents, gold, per bar- 

 rel ; at Port Hood, one dollar per "barrel ; Nova Scotia, one dollar per 

 barrel ; Magdalens, seventy-five cents per barrel ; and at Bay of Islands, 

 Xfld., two dollars per barrel. These prices include what is paid for the 

 fish, and does not include the barrels, salt, labor, etc., etc. 



All the herring which we put up in the Provinces as stated herein, 

 we bought from the fishermen and paid them at prices as stated ; and 

 in no case whatever did we ever catch any in nets or seines, but always 

 purchased the fish from the natives. 



The above number of barrels does not include anj r herring which our 

 vessels brought in the Provinces during the year, for bait. 



We have taken from our books the number of barrels packed. 



GLOUCESTER, MASS., U. S. A., October 17th, 1877. 



D. C. & H. BABSON. 



WITNESS CHAS. H. BROWN. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



October 17th, 1877. 

 ESSEX, SS. 



Then personally appeared the within named Horatio Babson,and made 

 o.ith to the truth of the within statement by him subscribed, in behalf 

 of said firm of D. C. & H. Babson, before me. 



Witness my hand and official seal the day and year last above writ- 

 ten. 



[L. S.J JAMES DAVIS, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 280. 



William Cogswell, of Salem, County of Essex, and Commonwealth of 

 Massachusetts, on oath, deposes and says, that since August 24th, A. 

 D., 1866, he has held, and does now, hold the office of Inspector-General 

 of Fish, within and for the said Commonwealth; the duties of which 

 said office, among other things, are to supervise, either personally or by 

 deputy, the packing and inspecting of all pickled fish put up within 

 said Commonwealth, to keep an accurate account of the same, and to 

 report thereon in detail, as to the number of barrels, the quality 

 and kind of such fish, to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 

 that he is under bonds to the Treasurer of the said Commonwealth, 

 in the sum of ten thousand dollars ; that in the discharge of his du- 

 ties, he is assisted by some one hundred deputies, more or less, in 

 the different seaport towns of said Commonwealth, each of whom 

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