NEWFOUNDLAND. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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they shall remove the boats or ships causing the ob- 

 struction to such industry. With this object the 

 commanders of French cruisers may address to the 

 offending parties the necessary warnings, and in case 

 of resistance take their fishing implements, in order 

 to place them on shore or to give them up into the 

 hands of the commanders of her Britannic Majesty's 

 cruisers. In cases in which no interruption shall re- 

 sult to French fishermen, and in which neither a 

 complaint nor a demand has been made to enable 

 them to exercise without difficulty their right of fish- 

 ing, the commanders of French cruisers shall not op- 

 pose the fishing operations of British subjects. 



10. In cases in which residents on shore may inter- 

 fere with or disturb by their acts the drying and the 

 preparation of fish, and in general the various opera- 

 tions which are a consequence of the exercise of the 

 French fishery on the coast of Newfoundland, a report 

 verifying the damage caused shall be drawn^up by 

 the commanders of the cruisers of her Britannic Maj- 

 esty, and, in their absence, by the commanders of the 

 French cruisers. In the latter case the report shall 

 be admitted in evidence in the judicial proceedings to 

 be taken thereon by the commanders of her Majesty's 

 cruisers in the exercise of their functions as justices of 

 the peace. 



11. If an offense is committed or damage caused, the 

 commanders of cruisers of the nationality to which 

 the offenders belong^ and, in their absence, the com- 

 manders of the cruisers of the nationality to which 

 the plaintiffs belong, shall estimate the gravity of the 

 facts brought to their knowledge, and shall record the 

 damage sustained by the plaintiffs. They shall draw 

 up, should occasion require it, in accordance with the 

 forms in use in the countries of the two nations re- 

 spectively, a report as to the verification of the facts 

 such as it may result, as well from the declarations of 

 the interested parties as from the evidence taken in 

 the matter. This report shall be admitted in evidence 

 hi the Judicial proceedings to be taken thereon so far 

 as their powers extend by the commanders of the 

 cruisers of the nationality to which the offending 

 party belongs. Should the matter appear to be of 

 sufficient gravity to justify such a step, the com- 

 mander of the cruiser of the nationality^ to winch the 

 plaintiff belongs shall have the right, if no cruiser of 

 the nationality to which the offender belongs be in 

 sight, to secure either the person of the offender or his 

 boat, in order to give them up into the hands of the 

 commanders of the cruisers of the nationality to which 

 they belong. 



12. The commanders of British and French cruisers 

 shall administer immediate justice within the limits 

 of their powers with regard to the complaints brought 

 to their notice either by the interested parties directly 

 or through the commanders of the cruisers of the 

 other nation. 



13. Kesistanee to the directions or injunctions of 

 commanders of cruisers charged with the police of 

 the fisheries, or of those who act under their orders, 

 shall, without taking into account the nationality of 

 the cruiser, be considered as resistance to the compe- 

 tent authority for repressing the act complained 

 of. 



14. When the act alleged is not of a serious charac- 

 ter, but has nevertheless caused damage, the com- 

 manders of cruisers shall be at liberty, should the 

 parties concerned agree to it, to arbitrate between 

 them, and to fix the compensation to be paid. 



15. The French Government abandons for its sub- 

 jects the salmon-fisheries in rivers, and only reserves 

 a right to the salmon-fishery in the sea, and at the 

 mouth of rivers up to the point where the water re- 

 mains salt, but it is forbidden to place fixed barriers 

 capable of impeding interior navigation or the circu- 

 lation of the fish. 



16. French fishermen shall be exempt from the pay- 

 ment of any duties on the importation into that part 

 of the Island of Newfoundland, comprised between 

 Cape St. John and Cape Bay, passing by the north, 



of all articles, goodSj provisions, etc., which are neces- 

 sary for the prosecution of their fishing industry, for 

 their subsistence, and for their temporary establish- 

 ment on the coast of this British possession. They 

 shall also be exempt on the same part of the coast 

 from the payment of all light and port dues and other 

 shipping dues. 



17. French fishermen shall have the right to pur- 

 chase bait, both herring and capelin, on shore or at 

 sea, on the shores of Newfoundland, free from all duty 

 or restrictions, subsequent to the 5th of April in each 

 year and up to the close of the fishing-season. 



18. The employment of French subjects in the pro- 

 portion of one guardian with his family to each harbor 

 is authorized for the guardianship of the French es- 

 tablishments out of the fishing-season. In the large 

 harbors where the temporary fishing-rooms of the 

 French are so distant from each other as to render it 

 impracticable for one guardian to take care of all such 

 establishments, the presence of a second guardian with 

 his family shall be authorized. 



19. All fishing-boats, all their small boats, all rig- 

 ging, gear, nets, lines, buoys, or other fishing imple- 

 ments whatsoever, found or picked up, shall, as soon 

 as possible, be delivered to the competent authorities 

 of the nation of the salvor. The articles saved shall 

 be restored to the owners thereof, or to their repre- 

 sentatives, by means of the above-mentioned compe- 

 tent authorities, the interest of the salvors being pre- 

 viously guaranteed. The indemnity to be paid to the 

 salvors snail be fixed in accordance with the law ot 

 the respective countries in' such matters. 



20. The provisions of the present arrangement, with 

 the exception of those contained in articles 1, 2, and 18, 

 shall be applicable solely for the time during which 

 the treaties accord to the French the right of fishing 

 and drying their fish. In faith of which the under - 

 signed commissioners have drawn up the present ar- 

 rangement, subject to the approval of their respective 

 Governments, and have signed the same. Done at 

 Paris, in duplicate, the 14th of November, 1885. 



FRANCIS CLARE FORD, 

 EDMUND BURKE PENNELL. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. (For census statistics of 

 population, area, etc., see "Annual Cyclope- 

 dia" for 1884.) State Government (to June, 

 1887). Elections occur biennially in Novem- 

 ber of the even years ; legislative sessions bi- 

 ennially in June of the odd years. Governor, 

 Moody Currier, Republican ; Secretary, Ai B. 

 Thompson ; Deputy Secretary, and Editor of 

 State Papers, Isaac W. Hammond ; Treasurer, 

 Solon A. Carter; Public Printer, John B. Clarke, 

 Manchester; Insurance Commissioner, Oliver 

 Pillsbury ; Librarian, William H. Kimball ; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, James W. 

 Patterson; Adjutant-General, Augustus D. Ay- 

 ling; Secretary of Board of Health, Irving A. 

 Watson ; Secretary of Board of Agriculture, 

 James O. Adams*; Secretary of Board of 

 Equalization of Taxes, Charles A. Dole ; Rail- 

 road Commissioners Henry M. Putney, Ed- 

 ward B. S. Sanborn, and Edward J. Tenney ; 

 Bank Commissioners, Buel 0. Carter t and 

 George E. Gage ; Supreme Judicial Court 

 Chief-Justice, Charles Doe ; Associate Justices, 

 Isaac W. Smith, William H. H. Allen, Lewis W. 

 Clark, Isaac N. Blodgett, Alonzo P. Carpen- 

 ter, and George A. Bingham. Attorney-Gen- 



* Died Feb. 7, 188T. Nahum J. Batchelder appointed to 

 fill the vacancj r . 



t Died Dec. 10, 1886. Charles E. Cooper appointed to fill 

 the vacancy. 



