592 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Lord Granville desires me to state, for the information of Lord 

 Clarendon, that the Governor General of the Dominion has been 

 requested by telegraph to forward to this office any instructions 

 already issued on this subject, or that may be issued in consequence 

 of Lord Granville's despatch to the Governor General, of which a 

 copy is enclosed. 

 I am, &c, 



(Sigd.) H. Holland. 



The Undersecretary of State, 



Foreign Office. 



[Sub-inclosure.] 



Lord Granville to Sir John Young. 



Colonial Office April 30th, 1870. 

 Sir, I have the honor to transmit to you the copy of a letter which 

 I have caused to be addressed to the Admiralty respecting the instruc- 

 tions to be given to the officers of II. M's. Ships employed in the 

 protection of the Canadian Fisheries. 



H. M's. Government do not doubt that your Minister will agree 

 with them as to the propriety of these instructions, and will give 

 corresponding instructions to the vessels employed by them. 

 I have, &c. 



(Sigd.) Granville. 



'» 



H. E. The Kt. Honble. Sir John Young, Bart. 



&c &c &c 



Mr. Fish to Mr. Thornton. 



Department of State, 



Washington May 31, 1870. 



Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your note of 18th instant, 

 addressed to Mr. Davis, inclosing a dispatch from the Governor Gen- 

 eral of Canada, forwarding copy of a " minute of the privy council," 

 and also a report of the minister of marine and fisheries, dated 28th 

 April last. The reiteration in this respect of the assurance, which 

 you had previously given, that there could be no intention on the part 

 of the Dominion of Canada to abridge any rights to which the citizens 

 of the United States are entitled by treaty, is in accordance with the 

 confident expectation of this Government. 



It had, however, attracted the notice of the Government that, by an 

 order in council of 8th January last, it was ordered that " henceforth 

 all foreign fishermen be prevented from fishing in the waters of Can- 

 ada." The question arose, What are the waters of Canada? 



At the date of the treaty of 1818 the boundary of Canada, as under- 

 stood, was defined by the 27 chap. 49 George III., entitled "An act for 

 establishing courts of jurisdiction in the island of Newfoundland and 

 the islands adjacent, and for reannexing part of the coast of Laborador 

 and the islands lying on said coast to the government of Newfound- 

 land," (March 30, 1809,) by the 14th section of which it was enacted 

 " that such parts of the coast of Labrador from the river Saint John 

 to Hudson's Streights, and the said island of Anticosti, and all other 

 smaller islands so annexed to the government of Newfoundland by the 



