PERIOD FROM 1871 TO 1905. 793 



Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, July 3, 1886. 



(Received July 0.) 



SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 

 the 2d, reporting the detention of the American schooner City Point, 

 of Portland, Me., by the authorities of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. 

 I have, &c., 



L. S. SACKVILLK WEST. 



Sir L. West to Mr. 'Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, July 3, 1S86. 



(Received July 6.) 



SIR: With reference to your note of the 29th of May, I have the 

 honor to inform you that I am instructed by the Earl of Rosebery to 

 state that the matters therein referred to will receive the careful at- 

 tention of Her Majesty's Government after the necessary communica- 

 tion with the Dominion Government. 

 I have, &c., 



L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



Earl Granvitle to Lord Lansdowne. 



[Telegram.] 



6th July, 1886. 



It is asserted by the United States' Minister that American vessels 

 have been warned by the Collector of Customs at Cansp to keep three 

 miles outside a line drawn from Canso to St. Esprit, also outside 

 a similar line extending from North Cape to East Point in Prince 

 Edward Island. 



(Sd.) GRANVILLE. 



Mr. Woodbury to Mr. Bayard. 



BOSTON, July 7, 1886. 



(Received July 10".) 



SIR: I forward twelve affidavits of respectable fishermen of 

 Gloucester laying the foundation to show that the Canadian authori- 

 ties have this year, without notice, radically reversed their administra- 

 tion of laws toward American bait buyers and others. That thereby 

 some of our fishermen have been entrapped and seized is well known 

 to you. I retain a duplicate set, for use in case a suit is brought for 

 a penalty of $400 against an assumed master of the D. J. Adams, 

 which the customs authorities allege has been incurred. 



I have sent these in the expectation that, in the varying phases these 

 Canadian assaults on our commerce assume, these facts may be use- 

 ful to the Department, if not in the matter of the D. J. Adams. 

 I have, &c., 



CHAS. LEVI WOODBURY. 



