AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3445 



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

 ber, A. 1). 1877. 



D. W. PROWSE, 

 Stipendiary Magistrate, St. John's, Neicjoundland. 



I, Frederic B. T. Carter, a notary public, duly admitted and sworn, 

 practicing at St. John's, Newfoundland, do hereby testify that D. W. 

 Prowse, who has subscribed his name to the jurat of the affidavit of 

 Kobert Inkpen and of John Mitchell, on the third page of this sheet of 

 paper, is one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace for the island of New- 

 foundland ; that the signature " D. W. Prowse, stipendiary magistrate, 

 St. John's, Newfoundland," is the true handwriting of the said justice, 

 and that full faith and credit ought to be given thereto in court and 

 thereout. 



In testimony \vliereof I have affixed my notarial seal and subscribe;! 

 iny name this 24th day of October, A. D. 1877. 



(L. S.) FKEDERIC B. T. CARTER, 



Notary Public. 

 No. 3. 



Stephen Power, aged 38 years, trader and fisherman, residing at 

 Placentia, Newfoundland, maketh oath and saith : 



I am practically acquainted with the fisheries of this country, having 

 followed the same since I was 14 years of age. I have been engaged by 

 American fishermen in procuring bait in Placentia Bay. I found the 

 seine and the Americans supplied the crew, and for my services as 

 pilot, hire of seine, and my own aid in working the seine with the 

 American crew I was paid twenty-seven dollars in May last by Captain 

 Hickman, of the American schooner I. S. Glover. I am well aware that 

 American fishermen do haul bait for themselves, and I am well informed 

 that they brought down four large seines this year to Fortune Bay, 

 which were worked exclusively for their purposes and advantages. Such 

 seines were very much larger than those used by our own people, and 

 are destructive to the herring fishery. These seines succeded in pro- 

 curing large quantities of herrings earlier than the local seines, owing 

 to their great length and depth ; one of them I heard barreled upwards 

 of (4,000) four thousand barrels of herring at one time. The operations 

 of such large seines are highly injurious to the fisheries. 



STEPHEN POWER. 



Sworn before me, at St. John's, Newfoundland, the 12th day of Octo- 

 ber, A. D. 1877. 



W. J. S. DONNELLY, 

 Justice of the Peace for the Island of Neicfo midland. 



I, Frederic B. T. Carter, a notary public, duly admitted and sworn, 

 practicing at John's, Newfoundland, do hereby certify that W. J. S. 

 Donnelly, who has subscribed his name to the jurat of the affidavit of 

 Stephen Power, on the second page of this sheet of paper, is one of Her 

 Majesty's justices of the peace for the island of Newfoundland; that the 

 signature, " W. J. S. Donnelly, justice of the peace for the island of New- 

 foundland," is the true handwriting of the said justice, and that full 

 faith and credit ought to be given thereto in court and thereout. 



In testimony whereof I have affixed my notarial seal and subscribed 

 my name, this 24th day of October, A. D. 1877. 



(L. s.) F. B. T. CARTER, 



Notary Public. 



