REPORT OF COMMISSIOXER OF FISH A^TD FISHERIES. *7 



perpetually to American fishermen, especially tlie south coast of New- 

 foundland from the Rameau Islands to Cape Ray, and the west coast 

 from Cape Eay to the Quirpou Islands, the shores of the Magdalen 

 Islands, and the southern coast of Labrador from Mount Joly to and 

 through the Straits of Belle Isle, imd thence northward indefinitely 

 along the coast. By the Washington Treaty of 1871* the other shores 



* Article XVIII. — It is agreed by the High Coutractiug Parties that iu additiou to 

 the liberty secured to the United States iishermeu by the Convention between Great 

 Britain and the United States, signed at Loudon on the 20th day of October, 1818, of 

 taliing, curing, and drying fish on certain coasts of the British North American Colo- 

 nies therein defined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, in common with 

 the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty, for the term of years mentioned iu 

 Article XXXIII of this Treaty, to take fish of every kind, excej)t shell-fish, on the sea- 

 coasts and shores, and in the bays, harbors, aud creeks of the Provinces of Quebec, 

 Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the Colony of Prince Edwt^rd's Island, aud of 

 the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from 

 the shore, with permission to laud upon the said coasts and shores and islands, aud 

 also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their 

 fish ; provided, that in so doing they do not interfere with the rights of private prop- 

 erty or with British fishermen in the XJeaceable use of any x^art of the said coasts iu 

 their occupancy for the same piu"]50se. 



It is understood that the above-mentioned liberty aiiplies solely to the sea-fishery, 

 and that the salmon and shad fisheries and all other fisheries iu rivers aud the mouths 

 of rivers, are hereby reserved exclusively for British fishermen. 



Article XIX. — It is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that British subjects 

 shall havf , in common with the citizens of the United States, the liberty, for the term 

 of years mentioned in Article XXXIII of this Treaty, to take fish of every kind, excei)t 

 shell-fish, on the eastern sea-coasts and shores of the United States north of the thirty- 

 ninth x)arallel of north latitude, and on the shores of the several islands thereunto 

 adjacent, and in the bays, harbors, and creeks of the said sea-coasts aud shores of the 

 United States and of the said islands, without being restricted to any distance from 

 the shore, with permission to laud upon the said coasts of the United States aud of 

 the islands aforesaid for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish; jjro- 

 vided, that in so doing they do not interfere with the rights of i^rivate jiroperty or 

 with the fishermen of the United States in the j)eaceable use of any jiart of the said 

 coasts iu their occupancy for the same ptirpose. 



It is understood that the above-mentioned liberty applies solely to the sea-fishery, 

 aud that salmon and shad fisheries, and all other fisheries in rivers and mouths of 

 rivers, are hereby reserved exclusively for fishermen of the United States. 



Article XX. — It is agreed that the jilaces designated by the Commissioners aj)- 

 jiointed under the 1st article of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United 

 States, concluded at Washington on the 5th of June, 1854, upon the coasts of Her 

 Britannic Majesty's dominions and the United States, as places reserved from the 

 common right of fishing under that Treaty, shall be regarded as in like manner re- 

 served from the common inght of fishing under the preceding articles. In case any 

 question should ai'ise between the Governments of the United States and of Her Britan- 

 nic M.ajesty as to the common right of fishiug in places not thus designated as reserved, 

 it is agreed that a commission shall be appointed to designate such jilaces, and shall 

 be constituted in the same manner, aud have the same jtowers, duties, and authority 

 as the commission appointed uuder the said 1st article of the Treaty of the 5th of 

 June, 1854. 



Article XXI. — It is agreed that, for the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII 

 of this Treatj^, fish-oil and fish of all kinds (except fish of the inland lakes aud of the 



