APPENDIX TO PART THIRD DIVISION II. 189 



And Mr. Adams quotes (page 169) from Mr. Jefferson's Eeport on tlie 

 Fisheries, of February 1, 1791, as follows: 



"Spain had formally relinquished her pretensions to a participation 

 in these fisheries at the close of the preceding war, and at the end of 

 this, the adjacent continent and islands being divided between the 

 United States and the English and French, for the last retained two 

 small islands merely for this object, the right of fishing was appropri- 

 ated to them also." 



And he quotes also (pages 189, 190) the language of Lord North and 

 Lord Loughborough in the debate in Parliament on the treaty of 1703, 

 in which the concession to the Americans in that treaty of rights of 

 fishing was treated as an improvident and unnecessary concession. 



[NOTE 1, PAGE 169. FRENCH LEGISLATION FOR REVENUE PROTECTION.] 



Law or decree of August 6, 1791, Title in, Article I: "All goods 

 prohibited admission which may be entered by sea or by land shall be 

 confiscated as well as the ships under fifty tons, etc." 



Article II: "All prohibited goods shall be accounted for according 

 to the terms of the above article, * * * which the revenue officers 

 shall have found within the two leagues of the coasts on vessels under 

 fifty tons." 



Title 13 of the police in general, article 0: "The inspection of the 

 vessels, tenders, or of the sloops can take place at sea or on the rivers." 



Article vn: "The officers of inspections on the said tenders can 

 visit the vessels under fifty tons which may be found at sea at the dis- 

 tance of two leagues from the coast, and to receive the bills of lading 

 concerning their cargo. If these vessels are loaded with prohibitive 

 goods the seizure of the same shall be made, and confiscation shall be 

 pronounced against the master of the vessel with a penalty of five 

 hundred pounds." 



Law or decree of the 4th Germinal, year 2d, March 24, 1794, relating 

 to maritime commerce and revenue: 



Title n, article 3: "The captain arriving within the four miles of the 

 coast will submit when required, a copy of the manifest to the custom- 

 house official who will come on board, and will vise the original." 



Article 7: "The captain and the other officers on the revenue vessels 

 may visit all ships under one hundred tons which are at anchor or 

 luffing within the four leagues of the coasts of France, excepting they be 

 of superior strength. If the ships have on board goods of which the 

 import into and export from France is prohibited, they shall be confis- 

 cated, as well as the cargoes, together with a fine of five hundred 

 pounds against the captains of the ships." 



Provisions confirmed by the following laws: 



Law of March 27, 1817, article 13: "The same penalty shall be ap- 

 plied in the case provided by article 7 of law of the 4th Germinal, year 

 2, Title n, to ships under one hundred tons overtaken, except they be 

 of superior strength, within the two myriameters (four* leagues) of the 

 coasts, having on board forbidden merchandise," 



