3444 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Sworu before me at St. John's, aforesaid, this 9th day of October, 

 A. D. 1877. 



D. W. PROWSE, 



Stipendiary Magistrate, St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 NEWFOUNDLAND, 



Central District, St. John's, to wit; 



John Eumsey, of Fortune Harbour, in Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, 

 maketh oath and saith : I have heard the foregoing deposition of my 

 brother, Thomas Rumsey, read over. It is correct and true in every 

 particular. 



The name of one of the American captains is Jacobs. He formerly 

 lived in Green Bay, Newfoundland. I cannot remember the name of 

 the United States schooner that he commanded. 



I have been engaged four;e3n years in the herring fishery in Fortune 

 Bay. I have been fishing for thirty years in Newfoundland. 



his 

 JOHN + RUMSEY. 



mark. 



Sworn before me at St. John's, Newfoundland, this 9th dav of Octo- 

 ber, A. D. 1877. 



D. W. PEOWSE, 

 Stipendiary Magistrate, St. John's, Newfoundland. 



No. 2. 



Robert Inkpeu, aged 33 years, of Burin, Newfoundland, fisherman, 

 maketh oath and saith : Deponent has been connected with the fish- 

 eries of Newfoundland since he was fourteen years of age, and has pros- 

 ecuted the same almost continuously since that time. Deponent is ac- 

 quainted with the bait-fishery in Newfoundland, and with the operations 

 of United States vessels in British waters on our coasts. Deponent is 

 well aware that no advantages result to British fishermen from these 

 operations compared to the injuries to British interests, and is also well 

 informed that the localities chiefly frequented by United States vessels 

 are marked peculiarly as localities where the inhabitants are found in 

 the most straitened circumstances. Deponent knows that United States 

 fishermen did use their own seines in Fortune Bay last spring in hauling 

 bait, and that they did so in the early part of the spring in contraven- 

 tion of a local law that prevented local fishermen hauling herrings before 

 the 25th day of April, and loaded their vessels with about eight hundred 

 barrels herrings, which they carried to St. Pierre, and there sold to 

 French bankers. Captain Kirby was in charge of one of these United 

 States vessels. Deponent says, further, that no money paid by Ameri- 

 cans for bait is adequate to the injury they do to local fisheries and fish- 

 ermen, and that all classes in this v couutry agree in pronouncing their 

 operations a great evil. 



ROBERT INKPEN. 



Sworu before me at St. John's, Newfoundland, this 26th day of Octo- 

 ber, A. D. 1877. 



D. W. PROWSE, 

 Stipendiary Magistrate, St. John's, Newfoundland. 



John Mitchell, aged 52 years, residing at Burin, Newfoundland, 

 maketh oath and saith : 



I was present when Robert Inkpen made the above statement, which 

 I know to be true in all particulars. 



JOHN MITCHELL. 





