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French to catch and preserve lobsters on our coast, to erect factori 
on our soil, or to hinder or interfere with our people in the prosecution a 
of that industry, will we ever give our consent. | 
Third Resolution. | | 
Whereas it is apparent that development of the great cians | | 
internal resources of this colony is necessary to provide its inhabitan ’ 
with the means of livelihood, and to stay the tide of emigration from | 
our shores; ai 
And whereas railways projected in order to promote the persed | 
of these resources, and necessary thereto, will entail great burdens =| 
the people of the colony ; | 
And whereas that portion of the island upon the coast of which tho 
French have certain fishery rights is rich in agricultural, mining, an 
lumbering capabilities ; 
And whereas the rights and claims of the French upon that coas 
are enforced in such manner as to prevent the development of tho 
great resources by the inhabitants of the colony, grants of land and 
minerals being given “ subject to French treaty rights,” whereby capi- 
talists are prevented from investing ; 
And whereas the presence of French fishermen upon our coast, and 
their denial of our concurrent right to fish for cod, and of our exclusive 
right to take lobsters, give cause for daily quarrels in the fishing season, 
and much oppress our fishermen ; 
And whereas the treaties under which the French have rights and 
set up claims were undeniably framed more than a century ago, solely 
with a view to the exigencies of the Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Treland, and without regard to the condition of affairs which time has — 
brought about in this colony : 
Be it therefore Resolved,—That it is absolutely necessary to the 
prosperity of the inhabitants of this colony that the last vestige of 
French rights shall be removed ; 
That it is the imperative duty of the British Government to relieve 
us of the burden placed upon us by the same agency so many years ago, 
and under which we have so long suffered ; 
That no arbitration or other arrangement should be entered into 
between the British Government and the Government of France, which 
does not have as a basis that French claims to territorial and maritime 
rights in this colony are to be totally extinguished ; 
And that the Legislature and the Government of this colony should 
never consent to the commencement, prosecution, or conclusion of any 
arrangement which does not have the aforesaid condition as ‘ the 
* essential preliminary.” ; 
