PERIOD FROM 1871 TO 1905. 661 



John Sanndors says: " In January last one Sunday, I don't know 

 the date the Americans laid out their seines, assisted by the English 

 employed by them ; the Newfoundlanders told them to take them up, 

 as it was not legal their fishing on Sundays; there was no other 

 reason for destroying nets but for fishing on Sundays. They went 

 to McCauley, who had laid his seine out for barring herring; the 

 Newfoundlanders said it should not be done on a Sabbath day." 



3. That the Americans were barring herring, that is, confining 

 them in the seines for a considerable time, instead of forthwith haul- 

 ing them. By the evidence of Silas Fudge "He (Captain Jacobs) 

 had shot once and discharged his seine into Tom Farrel's, who was 

 working for him." 



John Saunders says: "Jacobs upset his seine into Farrel's seine, 

 who was employed by him. Farrel was barring for the Americans, 

 and was not allowed by Jacobs to haul his seine." 



Mark Bolt says: "The Americans do not bar fish; this was the 

 first time I ever knew them to do so." 



Richard Hendricken says : " Samuel Jacobs would persist in haul- 

 ing, and hauled once and barred them in Farrel's net. Farrel was 

 working for them, and had been barring herring for several days, 

 perhaps about a fortnight, by the Americans' orders. I believe it is 

 illegal barring herring, but we have no power to stop it; it is no 

 good telling a magistrate ; they take no notice of him." 



4. That they were interfering with the rights of British fishermen 

 in their peaceable use of that part of the coast occupied by them, &c. 

 By all the evidence given, it occurred on Tickle Beach, Long Harbor, 

 on which, as was seen by us, was a Newfoundland fishing settlement, 

 the land being granted by government, as stated by Mark Bolt, who 

 says : " I have been in the neighborhood fourteen or fifteen years. 

 The ground I occupy, 150 feet, was granted me for life by govern- 

 ment, and for which I now pay a fee; there are two families on the 

 beach; there were three in the winter; our living is dependent on 

 our fishing off this settlement." 



The above are the main points in the evidence on which my report 

 is founded. 



In conclusion, I beg to inform you that I have forwarded a copy 

 of the report to his Excellency the governor of Newfoundland and 

 the duplicate direct to their lordships, in order to insure their re- 

 ceiving it at the same time as the colonial office will. 

 I have, c., 



GEO. L. SULIVAN. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Welsh. 



No. 347.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington. August 1, 1879. 



SIR: You will readily understand that the pressure of current busi- 

 ness, especially during the regular and special sessions of Congress, 

 has prevented so immediate attention to the claims of the Fortune 

 Bay fishermen, as definitely laid before me in their proofs completed 



