123 QUESTION SIX. 



"COASTS" AND "SHORES." 



Have the inhabitants of the United States the liberty under the 

 said article or otherwise to take fish in the bays, harbours, and creeks 

 on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which extends 

 from Cape Ray to Rameau Islands, or on the western and northern 

 coasts of Newfoundland from Gape Ray to Quirpon Islands^ or on 

 the Magdalen Islands? 



THE QUESTION. 



The question is whether United States fishermen are, under the 

 treaty of 1818, entitled to take fish, not only on that portion of the 

 " coast " of Newfoundland specified in article one of the treaty, and 

 the " shores " of the Magdalen Islands, but also in the bays, harbours, 

 and creeks thereof. While the treaty grants to American fishermen 

 liberty to take fish 



on the coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks from Mount Joly, on the 

 southern coast of Labrador, &c. 



it gives liberty on the " coast " merely of Newfoundland, and on the 

 ; ' shores " of the Magdalen Islands. And the question is, whether the 

 more restricted liberty in these two localities is to be construed as 

 meaning the same as the more ample liberty on the Labrador coast. 



ANALYSIS OF THE TREATY. 



For the present purpose the provisions of the treaty may be divided 

 into three parts: 



1. American fishermen are to have liberty to take fish in the fol- 

 lowing places : 



(a.) Part of the southern, western, and northern "coast of New- 

 foundland." 



(&.) " On the shores of the Magdalen Islands." 



(c.) " On the coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks " of Labrador. 



2. American fishermen are to have liberty to dry and cure fish- 

 in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of the southern part 

 of the coast of Newfoundland, hereabove described, and of the coast 

 of Labrador. 



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