PERTAINING TO NEGOTIATION OP TREATY OF 1818. 313 



North America, for the purpose of shelter, or of repairing damages 

 therein, and of purchasing wood and obtaining water, and for no 

 other purpose ; and all vessels so resorting to the said bays, and har- 

 bors shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent 

 their taking, drying, or curing fish therein. 



It is further well understood that the liberty of taking, drying, and 

 curing fish, granted in the preceding part of this article, shall not be 

 construed to extend to any privilege of carrying on trade with any of 

 His Britannic Majesty's subjects residing within the limits hereinbe- 

 fore assigned for the use of the fishermen of the United States, for 

 any of the purposes aforesaid. 



And in order the more effectually to guard against smuggling, it 

 shall not be lawful for the vessels of the United States, engaged i n 

 the said fishery, to have on board any goods, wares, or merchandise 

 whatever, except such as may be necessary for the prosecution of the 

 fishery, or the support of the fishermen whilst engaged therein or in 

 the prosecution of their voyages to and from the said fishing grounds. 

 And any vessel of the United States which shall contravene this regu- 

 lation may be seized, condemned, and confiscated, together with her 

 cargo. 



(Article B omitted.) 



Article C. 



It is further agreed that the subjects of His Britannic Majesty 

 shall have and enjoy the free navigation of the river Mississippi from 

 its source to the ocean, and shall at all times have free access from 

 such place as may be selected for that purpose, in His Britannic 

 Majesty's territories, to the river Mississippi, with their goods, wares 

 and merchandise, the importation of which into the United States 

 shall not be entirely prohibited, on the payment of the same duties as 

 would be payable on the importation of the same article into the 

 Atlantic ports of the United States. 



(Articles D and E omitted.) 



No. 6. 



The American to the British plenipotentiaries. 



London, October 7, 1818. 

 Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Rush present their compliments to Mr. Rob- 

 inson and Mi-. Gonlburn, ami beg leave to send (hem the enclosed 

 paper containing some remarks on the articles handed to them at the 

 conference yesterday. They are to be considered as unofficial, accord- 

 ing to the intimation given yesterday, when they were promised, ami 

 have been drawn up merely under the hope that, by po essing the 

 British plenipotentiaries 01 some of the views of the American pleni- 

 potentiaries Before the Dexl meeting on the Oth, the progress of the 

 negotiation may bo accelerated. 



FISHERIES. 



The American plenipotentiaries arc not authorized by their in- 

 structions to assenl to any article on that subject which shall not 

 secure to the inhabitants of the United States the liberty of taking 



