72 CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



These lights and improvements are established and maintained 

 for the safety of vessels. Reasonable dues levied on vessels coming 

 into, and using a harbour to assist in supporting these aids to naviga- 

 tion are regarded as proper by all nations. 



The argument may be concluded by a quotation from a report of 

 a Committee of the United States' House of Representatives (Janu- 

 ary 18, 1887) (App., p. 382) : 



It may be conceded that, apart from the right of American fisher- 

 men to take fish of all kinds within certain clearly defined British 

 waters, American deep-sea fishermen have no greater rights, by 

 treaty or public law, in British ports, than British fishermen have in 

 American ports, so far as concerns revenue police, maritime tolls or 

 taxes, pilotage, lighthouses, quarantine, and all matters of ceremonial. 



CONCLUSION. 



It is submitted that it is permissible, in the case dealt with in this? 

 question, to require the payment of light and other dues, entry and 

 report at custom-houses, and to impose any similar conditions. 



