42 TREATY PROVISIONS RELATING TO FISHERIES 



They need not report, enter, or clear, when putting into such bays 

 or harbors for shelter or repairing damages, nor when putting into 

 the same, outside the limits of established ports of entry, for the pur- 

 pose of purchasing wood or of obtaining water; except that any such 

 vessel remaining more than twenty-four hours, exclusive of Sundays 

 and legal holidays, within any such port, or communicating with the 

 shore therein, may be required to report, enter, or clear; and no vessel 

 shall be excused hereby from giving due information to boarding 

 officers. 



They shall not be liable in any such bays or harbors for compulsory 

 pilotage; nor, when therein for the purpose of shelter, of repairing 

 damages, of purchasing w r ood, or of obtaining water, shall they be 

 liable for harbor dues, tonnage dues, buoy dues, light dues, or other 

 similar dues; but this enumeration shall not permit other charges 

 inconsistent with the enjoyment of the liberties reserved or secured 

 by the Convention of October 20, 1818. 



Article XL 



United States fishing vessels entering the ports, bays, and harbors 

 of the Eastern and Northeastern coasts of Canada or of the coasts of 

 Newfoundland under stress of weather or other casualty may unload, 

 reload, tranship, or sell, subject to customs laws and regulations, all 

 fish on board, when such unloading, transshipment, or sale is made 

 necessary as incidental to repairs, and may replenish outfits, pro- 

 visions and supplies damaged or lost by disaster; and in case of death 

 or sickness shall be allowed all needful facilities, including the ship- 

 ping of crews. 



Licenses to purchase in established ports of entry of the aforesaid 

 coasts of Canada or of Newfoundland, for the homeward voyage, 

 such provisions and supplies as are ordinarily sold to trading vessels, 

 shall be granted to United States fishing vessels in such ports 

 promptly upon application and without charge ; and such vessels hav- 

 ing obtained licenses in the manner aforesaid, shall also be accorded 

 upon all occasions such facilities for the purchase of casual or needful 

 provisions and supplies as are ordinarily granted to trading vessels; 

 but such provisions or supplies shall not be obtained by barter, nor 

 purchased for re-sale or traffic. 



Article XII. • 



Tishing vessels of Canada and Newfoundland shall have on the 

 Atlantic coast of the United States all the privileges reserved and 

 secured by this Treaty to United States fishing vessels in the afore- 

 said waters of Canada and Newfoundland. 



Article XIII. 



The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall make 

 regulations providing for the conspicuous exhibition by every United 

 States fishing vessel, of its official number on each bow ; and any 

 such vessel, required by law to have an official number, and failing 

 to comply with such regulations, shall not be entitled to the licenses 

 provided for in this Treaty. 



Such regulations shall be communicated to Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment previously to their taking effect. 



