North Atlantic Fisheries: … The grand jury of the St. George’s Bay district has made a strong presentment to Judge Pinsent regarding the threatened French competition in the herring fishery. The Judge commented on the notifications of the French commanders that they would not allow the Newfoundland people to take herrings on the west coast and repudiated their assumption that the investiture of a British official with authority on the French shore was Irregular.
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893