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TREATY PROVISIONS RELATING TO FISHERIES 



toutes les autres quelconques, sit- 

 uees dans l'embouchure et dans le 

 Golphe de St. Laurent, demeure- 

 ront a Pavenir a la France, avec 

 l'entiere faculte au Roi Tres 

 Chretien d'y fortifier line ou plu- 

 sieurs places. 



as far as the place called Point 

 Riche. But the Island called 

 Cape Breton, as also all others, 

 both in the mouth of the River 

 of St. Lawrence, and in the Gulph 

 of the same name, shall hereafter 

 belong- of right to the French ; 

 and the Most Christian King 

 shall have all manner of liberty 

 to fortify any place or places 

 there. 



TREATY OF OCTOBER 18, 1748. 



[Extract.] 



III. The treaties of Westphalia of 1648; those of Madrid, between 

 the crowns of England and Spain, of 1667 and 1670; the treaties of 

 peace of Nimeguen of 1678 and 1679; of Ryfwick of 1697; of Utrecht 

 of 1713; of Baden of 1714; the treaty of the triple alliance of the 

 Hague of 1717; that of the quadruple alliance of London of 1718; 

 and the treaty of peace of Vienna of 1738, serve as a basis and founda- 

 tion to the general peace, and to the present treaty; and, for this 

 purpose, they are renewed and confirmed in the best form, and as if 

 they were herein inserted word for word ; so that they shall be punc- 

 tually observed for the future in all their tenor, and religiously exe- 

 cuted on the one side and the other; such points, however, as have 

 been derogated from in the present treaty excepted. 



TREATY OF FEBRUARY 10, 1763. 



[Extrait.] 



V. Les Sujets de la France au- 

 ront la liberte de la Peche, et de 

 la Secherie, sur une partie des 

 cotes de Pile de Terreneuve, telle 

 qu'elle est specifiee par P Article 

 XIII du Traite d'Utrecht; lequel 

 Article est renouvele et confirme 

 par le present Traite, (a Pexcep- 

 tion de ce qui regarde Pile du 

 Cap Breton, ainsi que les autres 

 lies et cotes dans Pembouchure, et 

 dans le Golphe St. Laurent.) Et 

 Sa Majeste Britannique consent 

 de laisser aux Sujets du Roi Tres 

 Chretien la liberte de pecher dans 

 le Golphe St. Laurent, a condition 

 que les Sujets de la France n'ex- 

 ercent la dite Peche qu"a la dis- 



[ Extract. — Translation.] 



V. The Subjects of France shall 

 have the liberty of Fishing and 

 Drying, on a part of the coasts 

 of the Island of Newfoundland, 

 such as it is specified in Article 

 XIII of the Treaty of Utrecht; 

 which Article is renewed and con- 

 firmed by the present Treaty, (ex- 

 cept what relates to the Island of 

 Cape Breton, as well as to the 

 other Islands and coasts in the 

 mouth and in the Gulph of St. 

 Lawrence.) And His Britannic 

 Majesty consents to leave to the 

 Subjects of the Most Christian 

 King the liberty of fishing in the 

 Gulph St. Lawrence, on condi- 

 tion that the Subjects of France 



