. Correspondence relative to the fisheries question, 1885-87 [microform] : presented to Parliament by command of His Excellency the Governor General, 3rd May, 1887. Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches. 116 [BacloaareNo. 1-] CnTiFiED copyofa Report of a Commitfee of the Honourable the Privy Covncil approved Jy Sia Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council on the I6th August, 1886. The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch dated 15th Juiy, 1886, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in which he asks lor a report froa the Canadian Governmen


. Correspondence relative to the fisheries question, 1885-87 [microform] : presented to Parliament by command of His Excellency the Governor General, 3rd May, 1887. Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches. 116 [BacloaareNo. 1-] CnTiFiED copyofa Report of a Commitfee of the Honourable the Privy Covncil approved Jy Sia Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council on the I6th August, 1886. The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch dated 15th Juiy, 1886, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in which he asks lor a report froa the Canadian Government on the subject of an enclosed note from Mr. Secretary Bayard to thefiritishMinister at Washington, relating to certain warni-ags alleged to have been given to United States' fishing vessels by the Sub Collector of Customs at Canso. Mr. Bayard states: 1 at. " That the masters of the four American fishing vessels of Glouces- ter, Mass: "Martha C. Bradley," '• Battler,'' "Eliza Eoynton," and "Pioneer," have sever- ally reported to the ConsulGeneral at Halifax that the Sub-Collector of Customs at Canso had vramed them to keep outside an imaginary line drawn from a point three miles outside Canso Head to a point three miles outside St. Esprit on the Cape Breton coast" 2nd. "That the same masters also report that they were warned against going inside an imaginary line drawn from a point three miles outside North Cape in Prince Edward Island to a point three miles outside East Point on tie same ; 3rd. " That the same authority informed the masters of the vessels referred to that they ** would not be permitted to enter Bay ; The Minister of Marine and Fisheries to whom the despatch and enclosures were referred obseives that the instructions issued to Collectors of Customs authorized them ill certam cases to furnish United States' Fishing vessels with a copy of Uie Bnclosnre Ka 1 cifcuiar hereto attached an


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