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Majesty that the provisions of each and every of the articles afore- 

 said will terminate and be of no force on the expiration of two years 

 next a ft or the time of giving such notice. 



Sec 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give 

 and communicate to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty such 

 notice of such termination on the first day of July anno Domini 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or as soon thereafter as may be. 



Sec 3. That on and after the expiration of the two years' time 

 required by said treaty, each and every of said articles shall be 

 deemed and hold to have expired and be of no force and effect, and 

 that every department of the Government of the United States shall 

 execute the laws of the United States (in the premises,) in the same 

 manner and to the same effect as if said articles had never been in 

 force; and the act of Congress approved March first, anno Domini 

 eighteen hundred and seventy- three, entitled "An act to carry into 

 effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and 

 Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of 

 May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," 

 so far as it relates to the articles of said treaty so to be terminated 

 shall be and stand repealed and be of no force on and after the time 

 of the expiration of said two years. 



Approved, March 3, 1883. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1887. 



(24 Stat. L., chap. 339.) 



AN ACT To authorize the President of the United States to protect and defend the 

 rights of American fishing vessels, American fishermen, American trading and other 

 vessels, in certain cases, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President 

 of the United States shall be satisfied that American fishing vessels 

 or American fishermen, visiting or being in the waters or at any ports 

 or places of the British dominions of North America, are or then 

 lately have been denied or abridged in the enjoyment of any rights 

 secured to them by treaty or law, or are or then lately have [ been] 

 unjustly vexed or harassed in the enjoyment of such rights, or sub- 

 jected to unreasonable restrictions, regulations, or requirements in 

 respect of such rights; or otherwise unjustly vexed or harassed in 

 said waters, ports, or places; or whenever the President of the United 

 States shall De satisfied that any such fishing vessels or fishermen, 

 having a permit under the laws of the United States to touch and 

 trade at any port or ports, place or places, in the British dominions 

 of North America, are or then lately have been denied the privilege 

 of entering such port or ports, place or places in the same manner 

 and under the same regulations as may exist therein applicable to 

 trading vessels of the most favored nation, or shall be unjustly vexed 

 or harassed in respect thereof, or otherwise be unjustly vexed or 

 harassed therein, or shall be prevented from purchasing such supplies 

 as may there be lawfully sold to trading vessels of the most favored 

 nation; or whenever the President of the United States shall be satis- 

 fied that any other vessels of the United States, their masters or crews, 

 so arriving at or being in such British waters or ports or places of the 

 British dominions of North America, are or then lately have been 



