18 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



11 No. 7. 1783, /September 3: Extract from Treaty between His 

 Britannic Majesty and France (Versailles). 



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ARTICLE II. 



The treaties of Westphalia of 1648 ; the treaties of peace of Nimeguen 

 of 1678, and 1679 ; of Ryswick of 1697 ; those of peace and of commerce 

 of Utrecht of 1713; that of Baden of 1714; that of the triple alliance 

 of the Hague of 1717; that of the quadruple alliance of London of 

 1718 ; the treaty of peace of Vienna of 1738 ; the definitive treaty of 

 Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748 ; and that of Paris of 1763, serve as a basis 

 and foundation to the peace and to the present treaty; and for this 

 purpose they are all renewed and confirmed in the best form, as well 

 as all the treaties in general which subsisted between the high con- 

 tracting parties before the war, as if they were herein inserted word 

 for word; so that they are to be exactly observed for the future in 

 their full tenor, and religiously executed by both parties, in all the 

 points which shall not be derogated from by the present treaty of 

 peace. 



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ARTICLE IV. 



His Majesty the King of Great Britain is maintained in his right 

 to the Island of Newfoundland, and to the adjacent islands, as the 

 whole were assured to him by the thirteenth article of the treaty of 

 Utrecht; excepting the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, which are 

 ceded in full right, by the present treaty, to His Most Christian 

 Majesty. 



ARTICLE V. 



His Majesty the Most Christian King, in order to prevent the 

 quarrels which have hitherto arisen between the two nations of Eng- 

 land and France, consents to renounce the right of fishing, which 

 belongs to him in virtue of the aforesaid article of the treaty of 

 Utrecht from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, situated on the east- 

 ern coast of Newfoundland, in fifty degrees north latitude ; and His 

 Majesty the King of Great Britain consents on his part, that the 

 fishery assigned to the subjects of His Most Christian Majesty, begin- 

 ning at the said Cape St. John, passing to the north, and descending by 

 the western coast of the Island of Newfoundland* shall extend to the 

 place called Cape Raye, situated in forty-seven degrees, fifty minutes 

 latitude. The French fishermen shall enjoy the fishery which is 

 assigned to them by the present article, as they had the right to enjoy 

 that which was assigned to them by the treaty of Utrecht. 



ARTICLE VI. 



With regard to the fishery in the Gulf of St. Laurence, the French 

 shall continue to exercise it conformably to the fifth article of the 

 Treaty of Paris. 



