TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS. 53 



Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary to the Court of France; and Richard Rush, their Envoy 

 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of His 

 Britannic Majesty; and His Majesty has appointed the Right Hon- 

 ourable Frederick John Robinson, treasurer of His Majesty's navy, 

 and President of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and 

 Plantations; and Henry Goulburn, Esq., one of His Majesty's Under 

 Secretaries of State: who, after having exchanged their respective 

 full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and 

 concluded the following articles: 



Art. 1. Whereas diflerences have arisen respecting the liberty, 

 claimed by the United States for the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, 

 and cure fish on certain coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks of His 

 Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, it is agreed between the 

 high contracting parties that the inhabitants of the said United States 

 shall have, for ever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic 

 Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind on that part of the 

 southern coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to 

 the Ramea Islands, on the western and northern coast of Newfound- 

 land ; from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands ; on the shores 



of the Magdalen Islands; and also on the coasts, bays, har- 

 31 bours, and creeks, from Mount Joli, on the southern coast of 



Labrador, to and through the Straits of Belleisle, and thence 

 northwardly, indefinitely, along the coast, without prejudice, how- 

 ever, to any of the exclusive rights of the Hudson's Bay Company: 

 and that the American fishermen shall also have liberty, for ever, to 

 dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of 

 the southern part of the coast of Newfoundland, hereabove described, 

 and of the coast of Labrador ; but so soon as the same, or any portion 

 thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen 

 to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agree- 

 ment for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors 

 of the ground. And the United States hereby renounce, for ever, any 

 liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof to 

 take, dry, or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the 

 coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's domin- 

 ions in America, not included within the above-mentioned limits: 

 Provided, however, that the American fishermen shall be admitted to 

 enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repair- 

 ing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, 

 and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such 

 restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, or 

 curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the 

 pri\ 7 ileges hereby reserved to them. 



Art. 2. It is agreed that a line drawn from the most northwestern 

 point of the Lake of the Woods, along the forty-ninth parallel of 

 north latitude, or, if the said point shall not be in the forty-ninth 

 parallel of north latitude, then that a line drawn from the said 

 point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall 

 intersect the said parallel of north latitude, and from the point of 

 such intersection, due west, along and with the said parallel, shall 

 be the line of demarcation between the territories of the United 

 States and those of His Britannic Majesty, and that the said line shall 

 form the northern boundary of the said territories of the United 



