| Summary: | fish First the fish had to be landed from the several vessels, schooners or boats, culled by specially sworn cullers, talleyed by a special tallyman, and each evening the tallyman came to the office and gave in his returns to Jim Foley, who had charge of the large fish book. This book gave the names, the quantities in quintals of the various qualities of fish received from each dealer or fisherman, as the case may be. When the receipts were made out and each quality priced by one of the Messrs. Bowring, of [reverse] the total values were extended and checked. G.M.Story 1/77 JH 2/77 DNE-cit PRINTED ITEM Used I Used I 3 Used I
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