BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE. 



TREATY OF FEBRUARY 6, 1778. 

 [Extract] 



Article IX. 



The subjects, inhabitants, merchants, commanders of ships, masters 

 and mariners of the States, provinces, and dominions of each party 

 respectively shall abstain and forbear to fish in all places possessed 

 or which shall be possessed by the other party; the Most Christian 

 King's subjects shall not fish in the havens, bays, creeks, roads, coasts 

 or places which the said United States hold or shall hereafter hold ; 

 and in like manner the subjects, people and inhabitants of the said 

 United States shall not fish in the havens, bays, creeks, roads, coasts 

 or places which the Most Christian King possesses or shall hereafter 

 possess; and if any ship or vessel shall be found fishing contrary to 

 the tenor of this treaty, the said ship or vessel, with its lading, proof 

 being made thereof, shall be confiscated. It is, however, understood 

 that the exclusion stipulated in the present article shall take place 

 only so long and so far as the Most Christian King or the United 

 States shall not in this respect have granted an exemption to some 

 other nation. 



Article X. 



The United States, their citizens and inhabitants, shall never dis- 

 turb the subjects of the Most Christian King in the enjoyment and 

 exercise of the right of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland, nor 

 in the indefinite and exclusive right which belongs to them on that 

 part of the coast of that island which is designed by the treaty of 

 Utrecht ; nor in the rights relative to all and each of the isles which 

 belong to His Most Christian Majesty; the whole conformable to the 

 true sense of the treaties of Utrecht and Paris. 



[Note. — This treaty was abrogated by act of Congress of July 

 7, 1798.] 



TREATY OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1800. 



[Ratifications exchanged, July 31, 1801.] 



[Extract] 



Article XXVII. 



Neither party will intermeddle in the fisheries of the other on its 

 coasts, nor disturb the other in the exercise of the rights which it 

 now holds or may acquire on the coast of Newfoundland, in the 

 Gulph of St. Lawrence, or elsewhere on the American coast north- 

 ward of the United States. But the whale and seal fisheries shall 

 be free to both in every quarter of the world. 



(Note. — This treaty expired by its own limitations on July 31, 

 1809.) 



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