1078 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



* The following abstract Is copied from an affidavit made by Phillip S. Dodd, seizor, 

 dated 19th August, 1844. 



"And the deponent saith, that he is now in charge of the schooner ' Sylph,' employed by 

 the government of this province for the protection of the trade of the province, and for 

 the prevention of illicit trade. And the deponent saith, that on Tuesday, the sixth day 

 of August instant, when the deponent was proceeding round the said island in the said 

 vessel, in discharge of his duty, as seizing officer under the said commission, he saw a 

 vessel at anchor and engaged in fishing off St. Ann's Hay that deponent made for and 

 hailed the vessel, and directed the master to send his boat on board, which was accordingly 

 done that when the deponent hailed the said vessel she was lying at anchor and actually 

 engaged in taking fish, there being several lines over the vessel's side, and fish were 

 hauled in after he hailed that the master of the said vessel then came on board the 

 Sylph in his own boat, when the deponent ascertained that the said vessel was an American 

 fishing vessel, called the Argus, of about forty or fifty tons burthen, of and belonging 

 to Portland, in the State of Maine, in the United States of America, and that the master's 

 name was William Doughty and the deponent saith, that when the master had boarded 

 the Sylph and the deponent had ascertained the character of the vessel, the deponent 

 pointed out to him the headlands of Cape North and Cow Bay, and informed him that he 

 was fishing on grounds prohibited by the said treaty and the deponent saith, that the 

 said master freelv admitted that the place where he was then fishing was inside of a line 

 drawn from the headlands of Cape North and Cow Bay and the deponent saith, that he 

 informed the said master that his vessel and cargo were liable to seizure, and that deponent 

 accordingly seized the said vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, for an infringe- 

 ment of the said treaty and the deponent saith, that the place whore the said vessel was 

 at anchor and fishing, when deponent seized her, was off St. Ann's Bay, on the eastern 

 coast of the island of Cape Breton, about eight miles from the nearest land, but at least 

 two miles within the headlands of Cape North and Cow Bay." 



SCOTT TREMAIN, Regr. C. V. A. 



Vice-Admiral Seymour to Lt. Governor Le Marchant. 



BASILISK, AT P. E. ISLAND, 23rd August, 1852. 

 SIR: I have the honor to forward Your Excellency a copy of 

 Statements made to the Officers of the hired armed Tender " Tele- 

 graph " as I think it right you should be informed of the notices 

 which are said to have been issued to the Fishing Vessels of the United 

 States, by the Commanders of the Provincial Vessels emploj^ed for 

 the protection of the Fisheries; and I am not aware of the lines 

 therein described having been sanctioned by authority. 

 I have, &c. 



G. F. SEYMOUR, 

 Vice- Admiral, &c., &c., &c. 

 His Excellency SIR GASPARD LE MARCHANT, &c., &c., &c. 



