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Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Privy Council 

 approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on 

 the 1st July, 1870. 



On a Report, dated 20th June, 1870, from the Honorable the Min- 

 ister of Marine and Fisheries, submitting for the information of Your 

 Excellency in Council, a memorandum and documents on the Fishery 

 question, prepared for the Hon. Mr. Campbell, in connection with his 

 mission to England, under the Minute of Council of 9th instant, and 

 stating that these papers inform him of the position of the question 

 at the present time, and of the views expressed on various occasions 

 for several years past by the Briti>h and Canadian Governments; and 

 that the instructions which may be addressed to Mr. Campbell, with 

 reference to bringing to an early settlement all matters that have been 

 admitted into dispute between the British and American Govern- 

 ments, affecting the Fisheries, should embrace the following principal 

 points : 



1. That fishing rights in British American waters shall be in 

 future enforced, as they existed and were maintained, under the 

 Treaty of IMS. anterior to the Reciprocity Treaty of 1851, in accord- 

 ance with the Laws of Nation-. 



2. That failing such positive enforcement of these undoubted 

 rights, the question arising out of the -aid Treaty, as to the definition 

 of certain limits of exclusion, b} r headland lines, be referred to a 

 mixed commission, to be named by the British and N merican Govern- 

 ment-, and to be composed of one Imperial, one United States, and 

 one Canadian Commissioner, providing some independenl reference 

 in case of need: the principle on which such commission shall be 

 chosen and act, to be as provided in the Karl of Clarendon's Despatch 



Llth May, L866. 



:;. I hal such mixed Commission -hall be formed during the current 

 ir, and shall, in order to facilital srence, hold its sittinj 



either nt Halifax-. Washington, or ( >ttowa ; the negotiations and pre- 

 liminary arrangements for the same i<> !"• carried oul between the 

 Governor General of Canada and ti I States Government, 



through the British Minister at the American Capital. 



'! he Committee recommend that the Report or the Honorable the 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries be approved and acted on. 

 ( !erl ified. 



(Signed), Wm. H. L 



Oh rk Privy Council. 

 To the Honorable the Mr : of Marine ano Fisheries, &c, &c.,&c. 



Mr. Thornton />> Mr. Fish. 



Wa8Hingto> July 11. / 

 Sit:: With reference t<> your Note <>f the :;i i of May La i. copy of 

 which I forwarded to the I nor General oft i, I have now 



the honour to inclose copy of II I cellency't reply, forwardii 

 Memorandum from the Canadian Mini ter of Marine and Fi 

 the explanation contained in which will, I have no doubt, bi 

 factory to the ( lovernmenl of the I Inited Stat 



I have, etc., 



I'.du '. Thornton. 



The I [on. II tim/roN Fish Xc. 



