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e no courts or tribunals of any kind for the adminis- 
of justice—no magistrates, no police, none of the out- 
ds forms - of authority or government of any kind. The 
le were unrepresented in the Legislature of the colony, and 
ed no share or portion of the public moneys for public 
s of any kind. In point of fact they were regarded as 
od for all practical purposes they were, outside of the 
2 or limits of law, order, or government of any kind. The 
subject of dispute, viz., that of English and French fishery 
its, being dealt with, or moped so to be, from time to time 
c » British naval officers sent to “ protect the fisheries,” as the 
ase is, the question of the jurisdiction of the Legislature and 
the courts of the colony over the people inhabiting the 
'rench shore ” was but seldom raised or considered. 
But, amid all this doubt and uncertainty, a settled British 
pulation was permitted to grow up, and for this permission, 
1 the anachronism to which it has led, and which is every day 
coming more and more intensified, responsibility and blame 
ist lie somewhere. The natural resources both of land and sea 
: acted the enterprise of emigrants from different countries ; 
ie p the present population of the “French shore” consists 
‘the descendants of original settlers from England, and from 
yt © cio: Nova Scotia, gradually augmented by contribu- 
ms from other parts of the colony of Newfoundland. Of 
te years trade and commerce on those parts of the coast 
we advanced with increasing rapidity. New branches of in- 
y are being started, and regular trade with the “French 
is now a well-established and recognised fact. The 
r trips of the colonial mail and passenger steamers, 
ised by the Government, are now extended to these parts 
coast, and during the summer months a large portion of 
e coast is regularly visited by a steamer conveying mails, 
engers, and freight to and from Halifax and other ports in 
minion of Canada, under subsidies from the Dominion and 
ewfoundland Governments. 
- OLD CLAIMS STILL ASSERTED. 
yi t is most important to bear in mind that, side by side with 
ese parsing facts and conditions, with the disappearance of 
oating English fisherman, and the settlement in his place of 
