PERIOD FROM 1871 TO 1905. 791 



officer or person in the execution of his duty under this Act, or aiding 

 or abetting any other person in any opposition, shall forfeit eight 

 hundred dollars, and shall be guilty or a misdemeanor, and upon 

 conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 

 years." 



Having reference to the above, you are requested to furnish any 

 foreign fishing vessels, boats or fishermen found within three marine 

 miles of the shore, within your district, with a printed copy of the 

 "warning" enclosed herewith. If any fishing vessel or boat of the 

 United States is found fishing, or to have been fishing, or preparing 

 to fish, or if hovering within the three mile limit, does not depart 

 within twenty-four hours after receiving such "warning", you will 

 please place an officer on board such vessel, and at once telegraph the 

 facts to the Fisheries Department at Ottawa, and await instructions. 



(Sd.) J. JOHNSON, 



Commissioner of Customs. 



Mr. Bayard to Mr. Phelps. 



No. 329.] DEPARTMENT OP STATE, 



Washington, June 18, 1886. 



SIR: With reference to previous correspondence concerning the 

 fisheries question, I transmit to you herewith a copy of a dispatch 

 from our consul at Halifax, in relation to the recent instructions to 

 Canadian officials concerning American fishing vessels. 

 I am, &c., 



T. F. BAYARD. 



[Inclosure.] 



Mr. Phelan to Mr. Porter. 



No. 85.] UNITED STATES CONSULATE-GENERAL, 



Halifax, June 15, 1886. (Received June 18.) 



SIR: I have the honor to report that I sent with dispatch No. 83, 

 dated May 27, 1886, a circular issued by J. Johnson, Esq., Canadian 

 commissioner of customs, known as Circular No. 371, dated May 7, 

 1886, containing instructions to customs collectors concerning foreign 

 fishing vessels. I now inclose herewith a confidential circular of the 

 same date and number issued by the same officer, with a note saying 

 " that the confidential circular was to be substituted for the one of the 

 same date and number previously received." 



It will be seen by comparing the circulars that the two last para- 

 graphs in the first circular issued are stricken out and the following 

 substituted in lieu thereof: 



" Having reference to the above you are requested to furnish every 

 foreign fishing vessel, boat, or fisherman found within three marine 

 miles from shore with a copy of the warning inclosed herewith. If 

 any fishing vessel or boat of the United States is found fishing, or to 

 have been fishing, or preparing to fish, or, if hovering within the 



