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this report, relating to the export of bait, should be passed during the 
present session of the Legislature. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
A. W. Harvey, Chairman. Rosert THoRBuRN, 
Jamus §. Prrrs, A. F. Gooprinen, 
M. Monror, A. M. Mackay, 
J. SYME, A. BRADSHAW, 
CHariEs Bownine, Eris C. Watson. 
CommritrEe Room, May 17th, 1886. 
D. 
THE 1885 ARRANGEMENT REJECTED. 
The Joint Select Committee appointed by the Legislative Council 
and the House of Assembly to consider the Arrangement proposed to be 
entered into by the Government of Great Britain and France relative 
to the Treaties between the two countries on the subject of the 
Newfoundland Fisheries, beg to report the following resolutions, which” 
they respectfully submit for the consideration of the Legislature :— 
' Whereas her Majesty’s Government have recognised in the most 
solemn manner the jurisdiction of the Government of this colony 
over the coastal fisheries and territory of Newfoundland and its 
dependencies, and have acknowledged that the said fisheries and 
territory cannot be alienated except with the consent of the Local” 
Legislature, and have, by the despatch accompanying the arrangement 
of 1885, made between France and Great Britain concerning that part 
of our coast whereon the French have certain fishery privileges, further 
recognised as essential to the validity of the said arrangement its 
ratification by our Local Legislature, 
And whereas the arrangement would place the French in possession 
of the principal harbours between Cape Ray and Cape John, to the 
practical exclusion of British fishermen from any of the fishing 
privileges of that coast, 
And whereas the said arrangement gives jurisdiction to commanders - 
of French cruisers in matters criminal as well as civil, to the disregard- 
ing of those principles and procedures to which as British subjects we 
are accustomed and entitled in tribunals of justice, 
