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the circumstances of difficulty with which the question is involved, 

 satisfy the American plenipotentiaries of the sincere and earnest dis- 

 position of the British Government to go every practicable length in 

 a joint effort to remove all existing causes of difference, and to con- 

 nect the two countries in the firmest ties of harmony and good under- 

 standing. 



The American plenipotentiaries declared that they received the 

 proposition entirely in the same spirit; and then brought forward 

 the annexed articles, (G,) relating to other maritime points, which, 

 at the former conference, they had announced their intention of pro- 

 ducing. 



They also submitted three other articles, as annexed, respecting 

 wrecks, &c. (H.) 



It was agreed to meet on Friday, the 25th instant. 



ALBERT GALLATIN, 

 RICHARD RUSH, 

 FREDERICK JOHN ROBINSON, 

 HENRY GOULBURN. 



ARTICLE A. 



Whereas differences 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 con- 

 tracting parties that the inhabitants of the said United States shall 

 continue to enjoy unmolested, for ever, 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, and the western 

 and northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to 

 Quirpon Island, on the Magdalen Islands; and also on the coasts, 

 bays, harbours, and creeks from Mount Joli, on the southern coast of 

 Labrador, to and through the straits of Belleisle, and thence, north- 

 wardly, indefinitely, along the coast ; 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 here above described, of the Magdalen Islands, 

 and of Labrador, as here above described; but so soon as the same, or 

 either of them, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said 

 fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without previous 

 agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or 

 possessors of the ground ; and the United States hereby renounce 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, and 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 and harbours for the purpose only of obtaining shel- 

 ter, wood, water, and bait, but under such restrictions as may be 

 necessary to prevent their drying or curing fish therein, or in any 

 other manner abusing the privilege hereby reserved to them. 



