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I shall be glad to learn whether your Excellency is authorized to 



assent to it on behalf of the Government of the French Republic. 



I am, &c, 



Salisbury. 



M. Waddington. 



[Inclosure.] 

 DRAFT MODUS VIVENDI. 



The questions of principle and of respective rights being entirely 

 reserved on both sides, the British and French Governments agree 

 that the status quo shall be maintained during the ensuing season on 

 the following bases: 



Without France or Great Britain demanding at once a new exam- 

 ination of the legality of the installation of British or French lobster 

 factories on the coasts of Newfoundland, where the French enjoy 

 rights of fishing conferred by the Treaties, it is understood that there 

 shall be no modification in the positions (" emplacements ") occupied 

 by the establishments of the subjects or either country on the 1st 

 July, 1889, except that a subject of either nation may remove any such 

 establishment to any spot on which the Commanders of the two naval 

 stations shall have previously agreed. 



No lobster fisheries which were not in operation on the 1st July, 

 1889, shall be permitted, unless by the joint consent of the Com- 

 manders of the British and French naval stations. 



In consideration of each new lobster fishery so permitted, it shall 

 be open to the fishermen of the other country to establish a new lobster 

 fishery on some spot to be similarly settled by joint agreement between 

 the said Naval Commanders. 



Whenever any rase of competition in respect of lobster fishery arises 

 between fishermen of cither country, the commanders of the two naval 

 stations shall proceed on the spot to a provisional delimitation of the 

 lobster fishery grounds, having regard to the situations acquired by 

 the two parties. 



N. B. — It is well understood that this arrangement is quite pro- 

 visional, and shall only hold good for the fishing season which is 

 about to open. 



M. Waddington to the Marquess of Salisburg. 



(Received March 12.) 



Londres, le 11 Mars, 1890. 

 ^f. ix Marquis, 



Vbtre Seigneurie a bien voulu, en se reft' rant aux communications 

 rerbales qui out e'te" echangees entre cette Ambassade et le Foreign 

 Office, nradresser un projei de modus vivendi destine" a rfigler les 

 conditions dans lesquellea la peche du homard aura a Terre-Neuve 

 pendanl la 3aison prochaine. 



Vous me faites savoir en meme temps que le texte de ce projet a 

 recu L'adh&ioii 'In Gouvernemenf de la Koine, et vous me demandez 

 31, de inon c6t6, j' 1 swis autorise' a en accepter les termes au nom du 

 (iouvernemenl de hi R^publique Franchise. 



