798 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



nearest custom-house, or to make entry there, or was warned off. I 

 have been in at the following places on that coast, viz : Grand Manan 

 Island, Digby, Brier Island, St. Mary's Bay, Green Cove, Yarmouth, 

 Shelburne, Liverpool, Cole Harbor, Dover, Arichat, Canso, Bedeque, 

 St. Anns, Sydney; and further says not. 



EDWAKD CANTILLION, 



Schooner Sylvester. 



[L. s.] AARON PARSONS, 



Notary Public. 



[Inclosure No. 12.] 



I, Jeffrey F. Gerroir, of Gloucester, Commonwealth of Massachu- 

 setts, in the United States of America, on my oath do say I am a fish- 

 erman, and in the course of my calling during the last fourteen years 

 have entered many places and ports in Nova Scotia for the purpose of 

 buying bait to be used by the vessel I was on in the deep-sea fishery. 



I further say we were always freely allowed to purchase what bait 

 we wanted, and before this year I never heard of or knew an instance 

 where such vessel lying to or anchoring within the three-mile limits 

 of the coast for such purpose was required to report at the nearest 

 custom-house, or to make entry there, or was warned off. I have 

 been in at the following places on that coast, viz : St. Andrews, New 

 Brunswick; St. John, New Brunswick; Digby, Yarmouth, Barring- 

 ton, Shelburne, Liverpool, La Have, Lunenburg, Halifax, Dover, 

 Arichat, Canso, Bedeque, St. Anne, Sydney, Port Hood, Louisburg, 

 Charlottetown, Souris, Georgetown; and further says not. 



JEFFREY F. GERRIOR. 



[L. s.] AARON PARSONS, 



Notary Public. 



Mr. Boutelle to Mr. Bayard. 



[Telegram.] 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 



Washington, July 10, 1886. 



I have just received a dispatch from Eastport, Me., stating that 

 American boats after herring for sardines at St. Andrews, New 

 Brunswick, were driven away last night by the Dominion cruiser 

 Middleton, and it is announced that no American boats will be 

 allowed to take herring for any purpose. I earnestly invoke the 

 immediate attention of the Department to this matter. 



C. A. BOUTELLE. 



