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thence northwardly indefinitely along the coast, without prejudice, 

 however, to any of the exclusive rights of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany; and it was also by the said article of the said Convention 

 agreed, that the American fishermen should have liberty for ever 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 iish at such portion so settled without 

 previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, pro- 

 prietors, or possessors of the ground: And whereas it is ex- 

 pedient that 1 lis Majesty should be enabled to carry into execu- 

 tion so much of the said Convention as is above recited, and to make 

 regulations for that purpose:" ''it shall and may be lawful, from 

 and after the passing of the said Act, 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 regulations and to give such directions, orders and instructions 

 to the Governor of New foundland, or to any officer or officers on that 

 station, or to any other person or persons whomsoever, as shall or 

 may be from time to time deemed proper and necessary for the carry- 

 ing into effect the purposes of the said Convention with relation to 

 the taking, drying, and curing of fish by inhabitants of the United 

 States of America in common with the British subjects, within the 

 limits set forth in the said article of the said Convention, any Act or 

 Acts of Parliament, or any law, custom or usage to the contrary in 

 anywise notwithstanding. It is ordered by His Royal Highness 

 the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, 

 and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, in pursu- 

 ance of the powers vested in His Majesty by the said Act, that the 

 Governor of Newfoundland do give notice to all His Majesty's sub- 

 ject-; being in or rescuing to the said ports that they arc not to in- 

 terrupt in any manner the aforesaid fishery so as aforesaid allowed 

 to be carried on by the inhabitants of the said United States in com- 

 mon with His Majesty's subjects on the said coasts, within the limits 

 ed to them by the said Treaty: and that the Governor of New- 

 foundland do conform himself to the said Treaty, and to such in- 

 structions as lie shall from time to time receive thereon in conformity 

 to the said Treaty, and to the above-recited Act, from one of His 

 ijesty's Principal Seer* of State, anything in His Majesty's 



mmission under the Great Seal, constituting him Governor m 

 Commander in Chief in and over the said island of Newfoundland in 

 America, and of the islands and territories thereunto belonging, or 

 in His Majesty's general instructions to the said Governor, to the 

 contrary notwithstanding; and His Royal Highness, in the name 

 and on the behalf of His Majesty doth hereby annul and make void 

 li and i of the ?aid general in tructions which are or shall be 



deemed contrary to the intent and meaning of the said Convention 

 ami of tb \<t. A li- 1 the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, one 



of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to take the neces- 

 sary measures therein accordingly. 



(signed) JaS. Bl LLBB. 



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