BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. 29 



their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of 

 the United States, has appointed on the part of the United States 

 as Commissioners in a Joint High Commission and Plenipotentiaries, 

 Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State; Robert _ dimming Schenck, 

 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain ; 

 Samuel Nelson, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts; and 

 George Henry Williams, of Oregon; and Her Britannic Majesty on 

 her part has appointed as her High Commissioners, and Plenipoten- 

 tiaries the Right Honourable George Frederick Samuel, Earl de 

 Grey and Earl of Ripon, Viscount Goderich, Baron Brantham, a 

 Baronet, a Peer of the United Kingdom, Lord President of Her 

 Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most 

 Noble Order of the Garter, etc etc; the Right Honourable Sir 

 Stafford Henry Northcote, Baronet, one of Her Majesty's Most 

 Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, a Companion 

 of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, etc etc; Sir Edward 

 Thornton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of 

 the Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary to the United States of America; Sir John Alexander Mac- 

 donald, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the 

 Bath, a Member of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada, and 

 Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Her Majesty's Domin- 

 ion of Canada; and Mountague Bernard, Esquire, Chichele Professor 

 of International Law in the University of Oxford. 



And the said Plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full 

 powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed 

 to ami concluded the following Article-: 



Article XVIII. 



It is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that, in addition to 

 the liberty secured to the United States fishermen by the Convention 

 between the United States and Great Britain, signed at London on 

 the 20th day of October, 1818, of taking, curing, and drying fish 

 on certain coasts of the British North American Colonies therein 

 defined, the inhabitants of Hie United States shall have, in common 

 with the lil.j.ri <,f Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty, for the term 

 of year mentioned in Article XXXII] of this Treaty, to take lisli of 

 every kind, except -hell fish, on the sea-coasts and shores, and in 

 the bays, harbours, and creek-, of the Provinces <>!' Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia, and New Brim wiclc, and the Colony of Prince Edward's 



Island, and of the several i Ian I- thereunto adjacent, without being 



restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission to land 

 upon the :i M | co and h' re and island . and also upon the Mag- 

 dalen I lands, lor the purpo e of drying their nets and curing then 



fish; provided that, i loing. they do not interfere with the rights 



of private property, or with British fishermen, in (lie peaceable use of 

 any pan of the aid coa i - m their occupancy for i lie -a i ne purpose. 

 It is understood thai the above-mentioned liberty applies solely 



to the e;i |i hery, ii 1 1 < I I lii 1 1 1 m - -almon and -had fisheries, anil all 



other fisheries in rivers and the mouth of rivers, are h< ir\>\ reserved 

 exclusively lor Brii i h li hermen. 



