MISCELLANEOUS. 1303 



Report for 1890. 



The only seizure effected during the past season was the United 

 States' fishing schooner Davy Crockett, Nelson Cantello, Master, 

 which vessel was seized at Souris, P. E. L, on the 25th September, 

 for fishing from dories within the three-mile limit. The Davy 

 Crockett was taken to Charlottetown and proceedings instituted in 

 the Admiralty Court. Pending the result of these proceedings, this 

 vessel was released under a bond for $2,500, this having been fur- 

 nished to the satisfaction of the court. 



The United States' fishing schooner Nellie Irving was detained by 

 the Collector at Souris for an alleged infraction of the Customs regu- 

 lations, but was subsequently released. 



The period of two years for which the modus vivendi of the Treaty 

 of Washington Act of 1888, providing for the issue of licenses to 

 United States fishing vessels, having expired on the 14th of February, 

 1890, Parliament passed an Act intitled "An Act respecting fishing 

 vessels of the United States of America," under which the system of 

 licenses to foreign fishing vessels was authorized, the conditions being 

 that upon the payment of $1.50 per ton such vessels were permitted 

 to enter Canadian ports for the purchase of bait, ice ; seines, lines, and 

 all other supplies and outfits, and the transmission of catch and 

 shipping of crews. 



Report for 1891. 



During the past season, but one seizure of United States vessels 

 became necessary; that of the schooner F. D. Hodgkins, which was 

 seized at Fox Bay, Anticosti, by the SS La Canadienne, for fishing 

 within the three-mile limit. 



The vessel was taken to Gaspe, and proceedings were instituted in 

 the Admiralty Court, but on the urgent plea of the master that he 

 was ignorant of the law, thinking they had the same right at Anti- 

 costi as at the Magdalen Islands, and that his action was not a wilful 

 violation of the law, the vessel was released on the payment of a fine 

 of two thousand dollars. 



The Act of 1890, providing for the issue of licenses to United States 

 fishing vessels, having expired on the 31st December of that year, 

 and in view of the late date of the meeting of Parliament, authority 

 was obtained from His Excellenc}^ in Council to issue ad interim re- 

 ceipts for similar privileges on the same conditions, pending legisla- 

 tive action in that direction; such receipts to be replaced by formal 

 licenses on the passage of the requisite statute. 



On the 10th July, 1891, an Act was assented to providing for the 

 issue of licenses to United States fishing vessel-, permitting them 

 during the calendar year to enter ports on the Atlantic Coast of the 

 Dominion of Canada, for the purpose of: 



(a) The purchase of bait, ice, seines, lines and all other supplies 

 and outfits: 



(6) The transshipment of catch, and the shipping of crews. 

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It is noticeable that although T'nitod Slate- voxels were enabled 

 to obtain licenses free of charge from Newfoundland for the purpose 

 of procuring fresh bait, and the above- fiirmvs -how a decrease of 21 



