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Q. Was any obstruction or hindrance placed in the way of the 

 Americans before or after that Sunday? A. No. 



Q. Did they remain in the harbour until the close of the season; 

 until the herrings slacked away were any Americans compelled to 

 leave the coast after this circumstance? A. No; there was nothing 

 to prevent their remaining, and they remained for some days, until 

 the weather became soft, and there were no more herrings in the bay. 

 Most of them left, but one American schooner remained about three 

 weeks after that, when another lot of herrings came into the bay, and 

 he filled up and went away the next fair wind. Jim Boy was the 

 captain's name. 



Q. Do you know any American of the name of Dago? A. Yes; 

 he has part in this seine. The Americans hauled their seine on the 

 beach immediately in front of my property. 



Q. Do you know the names of the schooners? A. No. 



Q. Do you know the names of the owners of the seine? A. Yes; 

 Captain Dago and McCauley. 



Q. Do you know anything the Americans did by way of revenge? 

 A. The Americans, in revenge for the destruction of the net, after- 

 wards drifted their vessels all about the bay or river with their 

 anchors hanging, and so hooked and destroyed many nets, about fifty 

 or sixty. I should think. The name of one of these captains was 

 Smith but I don't know the name of his vessel and the other was 

 Pool. We all believe that this was done in revenge. They were pre- 

 tending to be at anchor where there was about fifty fathoms of water; 

 but were drifting all over the bay and hooking the nets; there was 

 no weather to cause them to drift. Our small boats were anchored 

 off the beach. We had never any difficulty with the Americans before 

 this, but were always on good terms with them. 



(Signed) JOHN SAUNDERS. his x mark. 



Sworn before me at Tickle Beach, Long Harbour, this 13th day of 

 June, A. D. 1878. 



(Signed) GEO. L. SULLIVAN, 



Captain and Senior Officer on the Coast of Newfoundland. 



(4.) 

 Deposition of Mark Bolt. 



The examination of Mark Bolt, of Tickle Beach, Long Harbour, 

 taken upon oath, and who saith : 



I am a native of Dorsetshire, England. I have been in this country 

 twenty-one years, and have been fishing all that time. I have lived 

 in this neighborhood fourteen or fifteen years, and at Tickle Beach 

 since last fall. The ground I occupy (150 feet) was granted me for 

 life by Government, and for which I have to 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. If these large 

 American seines are allowed to be hauled it forces me away from the 

 place. 



One Sunday in January last John Hickey, Newfoundlander, came 

 first and hove his seine out. Five Newfoundlanders came and told 



