PERIOD PROM 18*71 TO 1905. 693 



The seine that was destroyed belonged to men called Dago and 

 McCauley. who, I believe, were each of them captains of schooners, 

 but the names of the vessels I do not know. 



(Signed) MARK BOLT. 



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

 June, A. D. 1878. 



(Signed) GEO. L. SULJVAN, 



Captain and Senior Officer on the Coast of 'Newfoundland. 



(5.) 



Deposition of Richard Hendriken. 



The examination of Richard Hendriken, of Hope Cove, Long Har- 

 bour, taken upon oath, and who saith : 



I have been nine years in Long Harbour. I was here in January 

 last, when the American seine was destroyed. It was destroyed on 

 account of barring herring on Sunday. I was watching their pro- 

 ceedings from the point opposite; they laid their seine out and went 

 to haul it in because the English would not haul it in on Sunday, 

 and the bay was full of fish. The fish would have remained. The 

 Americans generally employ some Englishmen to work with their 

 own crew ; they don't generally lay out their own seines. Captain Dago 

 and Samuel Jacobs would persist in hauling, and hauled once and 

 barred them in Farrel's net. Farrel was working for him, and had 

 been barring herrings for several days perhaps about a fortnight 

 by the Americans' orders. I believe it is illegal to bar herrings; it 

 destroys the fish, but we have no power to stop it. It is no good tell- 

 ing a magistrate ; the Americans take no notice of them. The near- 

 est magistrate to this place is at Harbour Briton, 25 or 30 miles off. 

 The only thing to let people know what is right and what is wrong 

 is to have a notice-board in each harbour, and some heavy fine im- 

 posed on law-breakers. 



James Tamel is harbour-master. 



I don't know if he is a special constable or not; but Mr. Enburn 

 told me he was to see the Yankees did not heave their ballast over, 

 and that their measures were correct, but they would not listen to 

 him. They hove their ballast overboard, and had tubs 22 inches in 

 depth instead of 16 inches ; in these tubs they measured the fish they 

 bought from the New foundlanders, and they would not alter them. 

 The fish are sold to the Americans by the barrel. For 100 barrels it 

 is usual to pay for 90, which is considered fair, but a flour barrel cut 

 down to 16 inches in depth is the proper measure; they only cut 

 them to 22 inches or more, and insist on having them filled. The 

 vessels from St. John's and Halifax always take the proper size tubs, 

 but the Americans constantly overreach us, and choose the most 

 ignorant to deal with, or those who are not so sharp as themselves. 

 They generally otherwise behave well, and we have never had any 

 quarrel with them before, but have always been on good terms. If 

 the natives did not see the laws carried out themselves there might 

 as well be no laws, for there is often no one else to enforce it. It is 



