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at Newfoundland or its dependencies, or on the banks of the said 

 island, except from Great Britain, or one of the British dominions 

 in Europe, shall be permitted to be landed or dryed on the said 

 island of Newfoundland, always excepting the rights granted by 

 treaty to the subjects of his most christian Majesty, on that part 

 of the island of Newfoundland beginning at Cape Saint John, passing 

 to the north and descending by the western coast of the said island 

 to the place cahed Cape Raye. 



ACT OF JUNE 14, 1819. 



(59 Geo. III. cap. 38.) 



AN ACT To enable his Majesty to make Regulations with respect to the taking and 

 curing Fish on certain parts of the Coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, and his 

 Majesty's other Possessions in North America, according to a Convention made 

 between his Majesty and the United States of America. 



Whereas a Convention between his Majesty and the United States 

 of America was made and signed at London, on the Twentieth Daj r 

 of October One Thousand Eight hundred and eighteen; and by the 

 first Article of the said Convention, reciting that Differences had 

 arisen respecting the Liberty claimed by the United States for the 

 Inhabitants thereof to take, dry and cure Fish in certain Coasts, 

 Bays Harbours and Creeks of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions 

 in America, it is agreed, that the Inhabitants of the said United States 

 shall have forever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic 

 Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every Kind on that Part of the 

 Southern Coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray 

 to the Rameau Islands, on the Western and Northern Coasts of New- 

 foundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the 

 Shores of the Magdalen Islands, and also on the Coasts, Bays, Har- 

 bours and Creeks from Mount Joly on the Southern Coasts of Labra- 

 dor, to and through the Straits of Belleisle. and thence northwardly 

 indefinitely along the Coast without Prejudice, however, to any of 

 the exclusive Rights of the Hudson's Bay Company; and it was also 

 by the said Article of the said Convention agreed, that the American 

 Fishermen should have liberty forever to dry and cure Fish in any 

 of the unsettled Bays, Harbours and Creeks of the Southern Part of 

 the Coast of Newfoundland above described, and of the Coast of 

 Labrador but that so soon as the same, or any Portion thereof, 

 should be settled, it should not be lawful for the said Fishermen to 

 dry or cure Fish at such Portion so settled, without previous Agree- 

 ment for such purpose with the Inhabitants, Proprietors or Posses- 

 sors of the Ground: And Whereas it is expedient that His Majesty 

 should be enabled to cany into execution so much of the said Con- 

 vention as is above recited, and to make Regulations for that Purpose: 



Be it therefore enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by 

 and with the advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 

 and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 

 Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, 

 it shall and maybe lawful for His Majesty, by and with the Advice 

 of His Majesty's Privy Council, by any Order or Orders in Council, 

 to be from time to time made for that purpose, to make such Regu- 



