12 CASE OF GEEAT BRITAIN. 



fishing upon that part of the Newfoundland coast upon which French 

 fishermen had privileges under the treaty with the United Kingdom 

 of 1783, and France having assumed to eject American vessels from 

 such coasts, the United States asserted that the sovereignty over the 

 territory was in the United Kingdom. (App., pp. 102-8.) 



COMMERCIAL ENTENTE, 1830. 



1830. By mutual executive action, certain relaxation was made in 

 the navigation laws of the two nations. United States vessels were 

 permitted for the first time to (App., p. 570) 



import from the United States aforesaid, into the British posses- 

 sions abroad, goods the produce of those States; and may export 

 goods from the British possessions abroad to be carried to any for- 

 eign country whatever. 



Fishing vessels were not within the purview of these arrangements, 



NOVA SCOTIA STATUTE, 1836. 



1836. The great difficulty and expense of effective patrol of the 

 very extensive coast-lines embraced in the convention of 1818 had 

 produced wide-spread neglect of its limitations. A few seizures had 

 been made during the period 1820-1830. Renewed depredations led 

 to the passing in 1836 of legislation (App., p. 613) in Nova Scotia 

 (afterwards declared by Imperial Order in Council to be regulations 

 under the Imperial statute of 1819), and also to a more strict enforce- 

 ment of its rights by the British Government. (App., p. 571.) 



SEIZURE IN BAY OF FUNDY, 1843. 



1843. The United States fishing vessel " Washington " was seized 

 for fishing in the Bay of Fundy. 



BRITISH CONCESSION OF BAY OF FUNDY, 1845. 



184-5. After some discussion the British Government announced 

 their intention to allow American fishermen to fish within the Bay of 

 Fundy as a matter of grace, although advised that it was a bay 

 within the meaning of the treaty of 1818, and. therefore, water in 

 which those fishermen could not claim to fish as of right. (App., 

 p. 141.) 



MR. WEBSTER, 1852. 



1852. The British Government having declined to make a similar 

 relaxation as to bays other than the Bay of Fundy, Mr. Daniel 



13 Webster, United States Secretary of State, issued a notice 

 dealing with the application of the treaty to bays. Subse- 

 quently the same subject was debated in Congress. Both these mat- 

 ters are further discussed under question No. 5. (App., p. 152.) 



