1082 MISCELLANEOUS. 



Provincial Secretary Howe to Captain Daly. 



PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, September 1st, 185%. 

 SIR: Referring to your Letter of the 25th ult, I beg to acquaint 

 you, that American Vessels which have regularly entered at a Port 

 where there is a Revenue Officer, can land fish or purchase barrels, 

 but they have no right to an irregular use of this privilege at places 

 where no Officer is stationed. 



I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant, 



JOSEPH HOWE. 

 CAPT. DALY, Commanding Schr. Daring. 



Captain Dodd to Provincial Secretary Howe. 



PORT HOOD, CAPE BRETON, September 1st, 1852. 

 SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, 

 dated 26th August, enclosing a copy of a Despatch from Vice Admiral 

 Sir George F. Seymour, with statements of certain Masters of Ameri- 

 can Fishing Vessels, a copy of which statements was handed to me by 

 the Vice Admiral on the Twenty-seventh of August, and which I 

 answered on the Twenty-ninth, 



The orders not to detain Vessels unless found trespassing within 

 three miles of land shall be strictly attended to. 

 I have, &c., 



P. S. DODD. 

 The Honorable the PROVINCIAL SECRETARY. 



Extracts from the journal of the legislative assembly of Newfound- 

 land, 1864. 



Duke of Newcastle to Governor Bannerman. 



Copy of a despatch from the secretary of state for the colonies in reply to a 

 request from the governor that the copy of a draft bill for regulating the 

 fisheries may be looked over, and any parts pointed out, such as probably 

 might not be sanctioned by the Crown. 



DOWNING STREET, 3d August. 1863. 



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

 No. 34 of the 29th June, enclosing a printed copy of the proceedings 

 of a committee appointed to enquire into the state of the fisheries of 

 Newfoundland, together with a draft bill framed with a view to 

 their proper regulation, and requesting that the provisions of this 

 draft bill may be looked over, and any parts of it pointed out, such 

 as probably might not be sanctioned by the Crown if it were passed. 



2. I apprehend that it is not your expectation that I should ex- 

 press an opinion respecting the practical modes of conducting those 

 fisheries, it being plain that the inhabitants of Newfoundland are or 

 ought to be best capable of judging what regulations are calculated 

 to increase the productiveness of their own seas, and with respect to 

 imperial interests I do not think it desirable to anticipate that close 

 inquiry to which any act passed upon this matter must be subjected 

 in order to ascertain that it does not infringe upon the right guar- 



