442 NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES 



Great Britain and North German Confederation. Brit- 

 ish notice to fishermen by the Board of Trade. Board of 

 Trade, November 1868. 



Her Majesty's Government and the North German Con- 

 federation having come to an agreement respecting the 

 regulations to be observed by British fishermen fishing off 

 the coasts of the North German Confederation, the follow- 

 ing notice is issued for the guidance and warning of British 

 fishermen : 



I. The exclusive fishery limits of the German Empire 

 are designated by the Imperial Government as follows: 

 that tract of the sea which extends to a distance of 3 sea 

 miles from the extremest limits which the ebb leaves dry 

 of the German North Sea Coast of the German Islands 

 or flats lying before it, as well as those bays and incurva- 

 tions of the coast which are ten sea miles or less in breadth 

 reckoned from the extremest points of the land and the 

 flats, must be considered as under the territorial sovereignty 

 of North Germany. 



(HERTSLETT'S Treaties, Vol. XIV, p. 1055). 



Great Britain and German Empire. British Board of 

 Trade, December, 1874. 



(Same recital referring to an arrangement entered into 

 between Her Britannic Majesty and the German Govern- 

 ment). 



Then the same articles follow with the alteration of the 

 words "German Empire" for "North Germany.' 



(HERTSLETT'S, Vol. XIV, p. 1058). 



Treaty between Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, 

 France, Germany and the Netherlands for regulating the 

 police of the North Sea Fisheries, May 6, 1882. 



II. Les pecheurs nationaux jouiront du droit exclusif 

 de peche dans le rayon de 3 milles, a partir de la laisse de 



