46 The Fishery Question. 



ish jurisdiction generally, on condition that 

 these occupations should be secured as a per- 

 manent right, not liable to be impaired by 

 future wars, from Cape Ray in Newfound- 

 land to the Rameau Islands, and from Mt. 

 Joly on the Labrador coast through the 

 straits of Belle Isle, indefinitely northward 

 along the coast ; the right to include curing 

 and drying the fish as well as fishing. 



In the treaty, as concluded, the first article 

 reads as follows: ''Whereas differences have 

 arisen respecting the liberty claimed by the 

 United States for the inhabitants thereof, 

 to take, dry and cure fish on certain coasts, 

 bays, harbors and creeks of His British Maj- 

 esty's dominions in America, it is agreed . . . 

 that the inhabitants of the said United States 

 shall have forever, in common with the sub- 

 jects of His British Majesty, the liberty to 

 take fish of every kind on that part of the 

 coast of Newfoundland which extends from 

 Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the 

 western and northern coasts of Newfound- 

 land, from the said Cape Ray to the Ouirpon 

 Islands ; on the shores of the Magdalen Isl- 

 ands and also on the coasts, bays, harbors 

 and creeks from Mt. Joly on the southern 



