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mutual confidence, could not fail to have a happy effect, both as 

 regarding its immediate object, and in confirming the amicable rela- 

 tions so happily subsisting between the two countries. 



It was agreed to meet again on Tuesday, the 6th of October. 



Albert Gallatin, 

 Richard Rush, 

 Frederick John Robinson, 

 Henry Goulburn. 



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No. 5. 



Protocol of the fifth conference held between the American and British plenipo- 

 tentiaries, at Whitehall, on the 6th of October, 1818. 



Present: Mr. Gallatin, Mr. Rush, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Goulburn. 



The protocol of the preceding conference was agreed upon and 

 signed. 



The British plenipotentiaries gave in the five annexed articles, on 

 the fisheries, the boundary, the Mississippi, the intercourse between 

 Xova Scotia and the United States, and the captured slaves. (A, B, 

 C, D, E.) 



It was agreed to meet again on the 9th instant. 



Albert Gallatin, 

 Richard Rush, 

 Frederick John Robinson, 

 Henry Goulburn. 



Article A. 



It is agreed that the inhabitants of the United States shall have 

 liberty to take fish, of every kind, on that part of the western coast 

 of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Quirpon 

 islands, and on that part of the southern and eastern coasts of Labra- 

 dor which extends from Mount Joli to Huntingdon island ; and it is 

 further agreed that the fishermen of the United States shall have 

 liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and 

 creeks of the said south and east coasts of Labrador, so long as the 

 same shall remain unsettled ; but as soon as the same, or any part of 

 them, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to 

 dry or cure fish without a previous agreement for that purpose with 

 the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground. 



And it is further agreed that nothing contained in this article shall 

 be construed to give to the inhabitants of the United States any lib- 

 erty to take fish within the rivers of His Britannic Majesty's ter- 

 ritories, as above described ; and it is agreed, on the part of the United 

 States, that the fishermen of the United States resorting to the mouths 

 of such rivers shall not obstruct the navigation thereof, nor wilfully 

 injure nor destroy the fish within the same, either by setting nets 

 across the mouths of such rivers, or by any other means whatever. 



His Britannic Majesty further agrees that the vessels of the United 

 States, bona fide engaged in such fishery, shall have liberty to enter 

 the bays and harbors of any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in 



