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been employed exclusively in catching codfish for the purpose of 
being dried. ... No part of a voyage, in which halibut, 
mackerel, or any other fish are taken as well as cod, can be 
reckoned as a portion of the time required by laic; the fare must 
be regarded as one of mixed fishery, which cannot be taken into 
computation of the time required for bounty. . . . But the 
taking of mackerel by any vessel under codfish license is regarded 
as a violation of the license laws; such illegal fishery during any 
season will forfeit all claim to bounty for that season . 
Vessels employed in taking fish for sale in a fresh condition, as 
well as fish to be preserved by pickling, are not within the bounty 
laws, and no voyage in which such fisheries are pursued can be 
legally computed as any part of the period required for the al¬ 
lowance of bounty.” 
This extinguisher was carried out to the letter by the revenue 
agents, and operated to close the subsidy to many fishermen. 
Secretary Cobb drove the last nail in the coffin when he issued 
his constructions to his subordinates. No matter how just the 
claim, the master of a vessel could not obtain the fishing bounty 
except through open perjury. Thus, no honest man would, 
under the circumstances, apply for it, and the humble nursery of 
our commerce “ died of a rose in aromatic pain.” 
In view of the premium which commercial nations are an¬ 
nually paying to their fishermen, and the depressed condition of 
our shipping interest, Congress should nqjv step to the verge of 
its power in subsidizing the American fisheries on a scale com¬ 
mensurate with their extent and value. 
All vessels participating in our fisheries should be built, rig¬ 
ged and equipped out of the products of our country; to carry 
a specified number of boys as a part of the crew, and to devote 
six months in fitting, fishing, curing and marketing fish ; vessels 
thus employed to receive governmental subsidy on the produce 
of the salt fisheries, one cent per pound on dry, and one half 
cent per pound on pickled fish. This bounty falls much lower 
than that annually paid by the French government to its fisher¬ 
men. 
It has been shown that the “ Yankees ” captured Louisburg 
and opened the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the adjacent fishing 
grounds to the Saxons. Through a bloody baptism they won 
their title to those regions ; conscious of their rights, they and 
their descendcnts have resorted to the provincial waters in quest 
