8 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Canadian Order in Council of September 9, 1908, amending Fishery Regulations. 

 Consolidated Statutes of Newfoundland, 1892 : 



Chapter 119 of Pilots and Pilotage for the Port of Saint Johns ; 



Chapter 120 of Harbour Master and Harbour Regulations lor the Port of 



Saint Johns; 



Chapter 324 of the Coast Fisheries: 



Chapter 129 of the exportation, sale, etc., of Bait. Fishes. 

 Newfoundland Act of March 3, 1S96 (61 Viet. Cap. 3) An Act respecting the 



Department of Fisheries. 

 Newfoundland Act of March 30, 1898 (61 Viet. Cap. 13) An Act respecting 



the Customs. 

 Newfoundland Act of July 19, 1899 (62 and 63 Viet. Cap. 19) An Act relating 



to Light Dues. 

 Newfoundland Act of June 15, 1905 (5 Edw. VII, Cap. 4) An Act respecting 



Foreign Fishing Vessels. 

 Newfoundland Fishing Regulations, 190S. 



No. 3. 1909, June 4 : Letter from the Right Hon. James Bryce to 

 the Hon. P. C. Knox containing Notice given under Article II of 

 the Special Agreement of January 27, 1909. 



BRITISH EMBASSY, Washington, 4th June, 1909. 



SIR: By Article II of the Special Agreement of January 27 last, 

 between Great Britain and the United States for the submission to 

 arbitration of questions relating to the North Atlantic Coast Fish- 

 eries, it is provided: 



" Either party may call attention of the Tribunal to any legislative 

 or executive act of the other Party, specified within three months of 

 the exchange of the notes enforcing this agreement, and which is 

 claimed to be inconsistent with the true interpretation of the Treaty 

 of 1818; and may call upon the Tribunal to express in its award 

 its opinion upon such Acts, and to point out in what respects, if any, 

 they are inconsistent with the principles laid down in the award in 

 reply to the, preceding questions; and each party agrees to conform 

 to such opinion." 



On the part of His Majesty's Government I have the honour to 

 inform you that His Majesty's Government proposes to call the 

 attention of the Hague Tribunal in pursuance of the provisions of. 

 the said Article II, to certain acts of the United States being such 

 as would fall within the provisions of that Article and which are 

 claimed to be inconsistent with the true interpretation of the Treaty 

 of 1818, and to call upon the Tribunal to express in its award its 

 opinion upon such acts and to point oiit in what respect, if any, they 

 are inconsistent with the principles laid down in the award in reply 

 to the questions submitted for decision to the Tribunal. 



The acts in question are the acts of the United States Govern- 

 ment directed towards or amounting to an attempt at the policing 

 by the national vessels of the United States of the so called Treaty 

 Coast, that is to say those parts of the Coast of Newfoundland, 

 Labrador, and the Magdalen Islands, on which the inhabitants of 

 the United States have under the said Treaty a liberty to take fish 

 in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty. 



This notice is given in compliance with the requirements of the 



above article that notice of the acts intended to be called into 



6 question must be specified within three months of the exchange 



