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vented from purchasing such supplies as may there be lawfully sold to 

 trading vessels of the most favoured nation or whenever the Presi- 

 dent of the United States shall be satisfied that any other vessels of 

 the United States, their masters or crews, so arriving at or being in 

 such British waters or ports or places of the British dominions of 

 North America, are or then lately have been denied any of the privi- 

 leges therein accorded to the vessels, their masters or crews, of the 

 most favoured nation, or unjustly vexed or harassed in respect of the 

 same, or unjustly vexed or harassed therein by the authorities thereof, 

 then, and in either or all of such cases, it shall be lawful, and it shall 

 be the duty of the President of the United States, in his discretion, by 

 proclamation to that effect, to deny vessels, their masters and crews, 

 of the British dominions of North America, any entrance into the 



waters, ports, or places of, or within the United States (with 

 136 such exceptions in regard to vessels in distress, stress of 



weather, or needing supplies as to the President shall seem 

 proper), whether such vessels shall have come directly from said dp- 

 minions on such destined voyage or by way of some port or place in 

 such destined voyage elsewhere ; and also to deny entry into any port 

 or place of the United States of fresh fish or salt fish or any other 

 product of said dominions, or other goods coming from said domin- 

 ions to the United States. 



1887. Newfoundland passed a statute by which it was provided 

 that no person (without a licence) should export or catch or sell, for 

 the purpose of exportation, any herring, caplin, squid, or other bait 

 fishes. (App., p. 711.) 



1888. A convention was negotiated known as the Chamberlain- 

 Bayard convention. It provided for the settlement of the question 

 as to bays; and, in exchange for the removal by the United States 

 of customs duties upon fish and certain fish products, it was agreed 

 that (App., pp. 42, 44) 



the privilege of entering the ports, bays, and harbours of the Atlantic 

 coasts of Canada and Newfoundland shall be granted to United 

 States fishing-vessels by annual licences, free of charge, for the fol- 

 lowing purposes, namely: 



1. The purchase of provisions, bait, ice, seines, lines, and all other 

 supplies and outfits; 



2. Transhipment of catch, for transport by any means of con- 

 veyance ; 



3. Shipping of crews. 



The United States Senate declined to ratify this convention, and 

 it therefore never became operative. 



The negotiators however had provided for a modus vivendi pend- 

 ing legislative action with regard to the convention, as follows (App., 

 p. 427) : 



1. For a period not exceeding two years from the present date, the 

 privilege of entering the bays and harbours of the Atlantic coasts 

 of Canada and of Newfoundland shall be granted to United States 



