42 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



No. 12. 180%, March 27 : Extract from Treaty between His Britannic 

 Majesty, France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic (Amiens}. 



Article 15. The Fisheries on the coast of Newfoundland and of the 

 adjacent islands and of the Gulph of St. Lawrence are replaced on 

 the same footing on which they were previous to the war. The 

 French Fishermen and the inhabitants of St. Pierre and Miquelon 

 shall have the privilege of cutting such wood as they may stand in 

 need of in the Bays of Fortune and Dispair, for the space of one year 

 from the date of the notification of the present Treaty. 



No. 13. 1806, December 31: Extract from unconfirmed Treaty of 

 Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty 

 and the United States. 



Art. 12. And whereas it is expedient to make special provisions 

 respecting the maritime jurisdiction of the high contracting parties 

 on the coast of their respective possessions in North America on 

 account of peculiar circumstances belonging to those coasts, it is 

 agreed that in all cases where one of the said high contracting parties 

 shall be engaged in war, and the other shall be at peace, the belliger- 

 ent Power shall not stop except for the purpose hereafter mentioned, 

 the vessels of the neutral Power, or the unarmed vessels of other 

 nations, within five marine miles from the shore belonging to the 

 said neutral Power on the American seas. 



Provided that the said stipulation shall not take effect in favour 

 of the ships of any nation or nations which shall not have agreed to 

 respect the limits aforesaid, as the line of maritime jurisdiction of 

 the said neutral State. And it is further stipulated, that if 

 25 either of the high contracting parties shall be at war with any 

 nation or nations which shall not have agreed to respect the 

 said special limit or line of maritime jurisdiction herein agreed upon, 

 such contracting party shall have the right to stop or search any 

 vessel beyond the limit of a cannon shot, or three marine miles from 

 the said coast of the neutral Power, for the purpose of ascertaining 

 the nation to which such vessel shall belong ; and with respect to the 

 ships and property of the nation or nations not having agreed to re- 

 spect the aforesaid line of jurisdiction, the belligerent Power shall 

 exercise the same rights as if this article did not exist ; and the sev- 

 eral provisions stipulated by this article shall have full force and 

 effect only during the continuance of the present treaty. 



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Art. 19. It shall be lawful for the ships of war and privateers be- 

 longing to the said parties, respectively, to carry whithersoever they 

 please the ships and good taken from their enemies, without being 

 obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the Admiralty, or to any 

 judges whatever; nor shall the said prizes, when they arrive at and 

 enter the ports of the said parties, be detained or seized; nor shall the 

 searchers or other officers of those places visit such prizes, (except for 



