PERIOD FEOM 1854 TO 1871. 589 



comprise any fishing grounds affected b}- the existing treaty stipula- 

 tions to which Mr. Fish's note refers, which were not formerly 

 within the bounds of the old province of Canada. With regard to 

 the general effect of the first paragraph of the order in council of 

 Sth January last, quoted at length, and underlined in Mr. Fish's note, 

 the undersigned would further observe that the act relating to fishing, 

 by foreign vessels, under the authority of which licenses were issued 

 to United States fishermen, applied to all foreigners ; and as the dis- 

 continuance of the license system which had existed under it applies 

 ;;lso to other foreign vessels and fishermen frequenting our coasts, 

 and who are not entitled to fish anywhere in the waters of Canada, 

 the terms of such formal discontinuance were necessarily general, and 

 in any case they could apply only to those waters within which our 

 " in-shore fisheries " are situated, and in which neither American nor 

 other foreign subjects have any legal right to fish. 

 The whole respectfully submitted. 



P. Mitchell, 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 



Mr. Thornton to Mr. Davis. 



Washington, May BO, 1870. 

 Sir: With reference to my note of the 14th ultimo to the Secre- 

 tary of State, in which I forwarded to him a copy of the Canadian 

 act respecting fishing by foreign vessels, of the 22a May, 1868, I have 

 now the honor to inclose a further law of the 12th instant, repealing 

 the third section of the above-mentioned act. a 



Mr. Thornton to Secretary Fish. 



Washington. May 06*, 1S70. 



Sir, In compliance with instructions which T have received from 

 the Karl of Clarendon, I have the honor to inclose for the information 

 of tin' Government of the United States, copies of letters which have 

 been addressed by the Admiralty to Vice Admiral George G. Welles- 

 ley, Commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces on the North America 

 and West Indie- Station and of a letter from the Colonial De- 

 partment to the Foreign Office, from which yon will see the nature 

 of the instruction- to be given to Her Majesty's and the Canadian 

 officers who will be employed in maintaining order at the Fisheries 

 in the neighbourhood of the Cos I of Canada. 



I have the honor to be with the highest consideration, Sir, 

 Four most obedient humble servant 



Edwd. Thornton. 



The Hon. Hamilton FlSH. 



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