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Table showing the fluctuations of several of the leading varieties of fish at Boston for five years commencing January, 1881-Continued.

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Table showing the fluctuations of several of the leading varieties of fish at Boston for five years commencing January, 1881-Continued.

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Table showing the fluctuations of several of the leading varieties of fish at Boston for five years commencing January, 1881-Continued.

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Lowest and highest prices paid by Boston fish dealers from 1853 to 1885, inclusive.

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Tonnage of vessels of the United States employed in the whale, cod, and mackerel fisheries, from 1860 to 1885, inclusive.

[From figures contained in the annual report of the Commissioner of Navigation.]

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1The tonnage for 1865 and 1866 is partly by new measurement and partly by old. NOTE. The mackerel licenses have not been issued separately since 1867, when a general fishing license was provided to replace cod and mackerel fisheries.

LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE, TRANSMITTING REVISED LIST OF VESSELS INVOLVED IN THE CONTROVERSY WITH THE CANADIAN AUTHORITIES.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 26, 1887.

SIR: Responding to your request, dated the 17th, and received at this Department on the 18th instant, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Relations, for a revision of the list, heretofore furnished by this Department to the committee, of all American vessels seized, warned, fined, or detained by the Canadian authorities during the year 1886, I now inclose the same.

Every such instance is therein chronologically enumerated, with a statement with the general facts attendant. T. F. BAYARD.

Very respectfully, yours,

Hon. GEORGE F. EDMUNDS,

United States Senate.

List of American vessels seized, detained, or warned off from Canadian ports during the

last year.

Sarah B. Putnam.-Beverly, Mass.; Charles Randolph, master.
Driven from harbor of Pubnico in storm March 22, 1886.

Joseph Story.-Gloucester, Mass.

Detained by customs officers at Baddeck, N. S., in April, 1886, for alleged violation of the customs laws. Released after twenty-four hours' detention.

Seth Stockbridge.-Gloucester, Mass.; Antone Olson, master.
Warned off from St. Andrews, N. B., about April 30, 1886.

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