TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS. 9 



of notes enforcing this agreement, which period will expire upon 

 this day, the notes referred to having been exchanged on the fourth 

 of March last. 



I have, &c. 



(Sgd.) JAMES BRYCE. 



The Honourable P. C. KNOX, 



Secretary of State. 



No. 4. 1686, November 6-16: Extract from translation of Treaty 

 between His Britannic Majesty and France. 



Article V. The subjects, inhabitants, merchants, commanders of 

 ships, masters and mariners, of the kingdoms, provinces and domin- 

 ions of each King respectively, shall abstain and forbear to trade and 

 fish in all the places possessed or which shall be possessed by one or 

 the other party in America, viz., the King of Great Britain's subjects 

 shall not drive their commerce and trade, nor fish in the havens, 

 bays, creeks, roads, shoals or places, which the most Christian King 

 holds or shall hereafter hold in America; and in like manner, the 

 most Christian King's subjects shall not drive their commerce and 

 trade, nor fish in the havens, bays, creeks, roads, shoals or places, 

 which the King of Great Britain possesses or shall hereafter possess 

 in America. And if any ship or vessel shall be found trading or 

 fishing contrary to the tenor of this treaty, the said ship or vessel, 

 with its lading, proof being made thereof, shall be confiscated ; never- 

 theless, the party who shall find himself aggrieved by such sentence 

 or confiscation, shall have liberty to apply himself to the Privy Coun- 

 cil of that King, by whose governors or judges the sentence has been 

 given against him : but it is always to be understood, that the liberty 

 of navigation ought in no manner to be disturbed, where nothing is 

 committed against the genuine sense of this treaty. 



No. 5. 1713, March 31-April 11 : Extract from Treaty betioeen Her 

 Britannic Majesty and France (the Treaty of Utrecht). 



X. The said Most Christian King shall restore to the kingdom and 

 Queen of Great Britain, to be possessed in full right for ever, the Bay 

 and Straits, of Hudson, together with all lands, seas, sea coasts, 

 rivers, and places situate in the said bay and straits, and which be- 

 long thereunto, no tracts of land or of sea being excepted, which are 

 at present possessed by the subjects of France. All which, as well as 

 any buildings there made, in the condition they now are, and like- 

 wise all fortresses there 'erected, either before or since the French 

 seized the same, shall, within 6 months from the ratification of the 

 present treaty, or sooner, if possible, be well and truly delivered to 

 the British subjects having commission from the Queen of Great 

 Britain to demand and receive the same, entire and undemolished, 

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