24 TREATY PROVISIONS RELATING TO FISHERIES 



Article I. 



His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz, 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence 

 Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del- 

 aware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 

 Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent States; that he treats 

 with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relin- 

 quishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights 

 of the same, and every part thereof. 



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Article III. 



It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to 

 enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand 

 Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also in the 

 Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where 

 the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. 

 And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty 

 to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland 

 as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on 

 that island) and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of His 

 Britannic Majestj^'s dominions in America; and that the American 

 fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unset- 

 tled bays, harbours and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and 

 Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon 

 as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful 

 for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlements, without 

 a previous agreement for that purpose Avith the inhabitants, pro- 

 prietors or possessors of the ground. 



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Done at Paris, this third day of September, in the year of our 

 Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. 



D. Hartley, [l. s.] 

 John Adams, [l. s.] 

 B. Franklin, [l. s.] 

 John Jay. [l. s.] 



[Note: The above article is identical with Article III of the 

 provisional articles above referred to, concluded November 30, 



1782.] 



TREATY OF OCTOBER 20, 1818. 



[Ratifications exchanged, January 30, 1819.] 



The United States of America, and His Majesty the King of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, desirous to cement the 

 good understanding which happily subsists between them, have, for 

 that purpose, named their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : 



The President of the United States, on his part, has appointed 

 Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary to the Court of France; and Richard Rush, their Envoy Ex- 

 traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaiw to the Court of His Britan- 

 nic Majesty: — and His Majesty has appointed the Right Honorable 

 Frederick John Robinson, Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, and 



