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Mr. TV est to Mr. Bayard. 



Washington, June 82, 1885. 



Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your notes of 

 the 20th and 22d instant in regard to the proposed temporary ar- 

 rangement touching the fisheries, in which you state that it is our 

 clear and mutual understanding that such arrangement is only tem- 

 porary, and that it proceeds from the mutual good-will of our 

 respective Governments, and solely to avoid all difficulties which 

 might otherwise arise from the termination of the fishing of 1885 in 

 the midst of the season. Also that the same immunity which is 

 accorded by this agreement to the vessels belonging to the citizens of 

 the United States engaged in fishing in the British American waters 

 will be extended to British vessels and subjects engaged in fishing in 

 the waters of the United States, and that the agreement has been 

 reached under circumstances affording a prospect of negotiation for 

 the development and extension of trade between the United States 

 and British North America. 



As therefore there exists no substantial difference between our re- 

 spective propositions and the statements as contained in our corre- 

 spondence on the subject, I shall consider the agreement as embodied 

 in our memoranda and the correspondence between us as thus con- 

 cluded, and shall inform Her Majesty's Government and the Gov- 

 ernments of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland accordingly. 



I have, &c, 



L. S. Sackville West. 



PROPOSED TREATY OF FEBRUARY 15, 1888. 



Whereas differences have arisen concerning the interpretation of 

 Article I. of the Convention of October 20. 1818; the United States 

 of America, and her Majesty the Queen of (he United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, being mutually desirous of removing all 

 causes of misunderstanding in relation thereto, and of promoting 

 friendly intercourse and good neighborhood between the United 

 States and the Possessions of Her Majesty in North America, have 

 resolved to conclude a Treaty to that end, and have named as their 

 Plenipotentiaries, thai is to say: 



Tin- President of the United States, Thomas l<\ Bayard, Secretary 

 of State; William L. Putnam, of Maine; and James B. Angell, of 

 Michigan : 



Ami Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and [reland, The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. 1'., 

 The Honorable Sir Lionel Sackville Sackville West, K. C. M. G., 

 Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- 

 potent iary to the United States of America; and Sir ( Jharles Tup per. 

 G. ( '. M. ( >.. C. B., Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada; 



Who, having communicated to each other their respective ImiII 

 Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following 

 articles: 



Article I. 



The High Contracting Parties agree (<> appoint m Mixed Commis- 

 sion to delimit, in the manner provided in this Treaty, the British 

 waters. Days, creeks, and harbors, of the coasts of Canada and of 



