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and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding 

 and obligatory on the said United States and on His Majesty: and 

 the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this date y 

 or sooner if possible. 



In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed 

 the same, and have hereunto affixed the seal of their arms. Done 

 at London, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord 

 one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 



L. s.] ALBERT GALLATIN, 



L. S." KlCHARD RUSH, 



L. s." FREDERICK JOHN ROBINSON,. 

 L. s.1 HENRY GOULBURN. 



32 No. 18. 1839, August 2: Extract from Convention between 

 Her Britannic Majesty and the King of the French, de-fining 

 and regulating the Limits of the Oyster and other Fishery on 

 the Coasts of Great Britain and of France. Signed at Paris, Aug- 

 ust 2, 1839. 



ART. 9. 



The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall enjoy the exclusive 

 right of fishery within the distance of three miles from low water 

 mark, along the whole extent of the coasts of the British Islands, and 

 the subjects of the King of the French shall enjoy the exclusive Right 

 of fishery within the distance of three miles from low water mark 

 along the whole extent of the coasts of France, it being understood 

 that, upon that part of the coast of France which lies between Cape 

 Carteret and Point Meinga, French subjects shall enjoy the exclusive 

 Right of all kinds of fishery within the limits assigned in Art. Irst 

 of this Convention for the French oyster fishery. 



It is equally agreed that the distance of three miles fixed as the 

 general limit for the exclusive right of fishery upon the coasts of 

 the two countries, shall, with respect to Bays the mouths of which 

 do not exceed ten miles in width, be measured from a straight line 

 drawn from Headland to Headland. 



ART. 10. 



It is agreed and understood that the miles mentioned in the present 

 Convention are geographical miles whereof sixty make a degree of 

 latitude. 



No. 19. 1843, June 23: Declaration of Great Britain and France con- 

 firming the Regulations of May 24, 1843 for the guidance of British 

 and French Fishermen in the Seas lying between the Coasts of the 

 two Countries. 



Declaration. 



The Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of 

 State for Foreign Affairs, on the one part, and the Ambassador Ex- 



