194 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Caicos, and the Bermuda or Somer Islands; also from the islands, 

 provinces, or colonies, of Great Britain, on or near the North Ameri- 

 can continent, and north or east of the United States. By virtue of 

 the authority of this proclamation, and in conformity with the ar- 

 rangement made between the United States and Great Britain, 

 114 and under the sanction of the President, you are instructed to 

 admit to entry such vessels, being laden with the productions 

 of Great Britain, or her said colonies, subject to the same duties of 

 tonnage and impost, and other charges, as are levied on the vessels of 

 the United States, or their cargoes, arriving from the said British 

 colonies. You will also grant clearances to British vessels, for the 

 several ports of the aforesaid colonial possessions of Great Britain, 

 such vessels being laden with such articles as may be exported from 

 the United States in vessels of the United States. And British ves- 

 sels, coming from the said British colonial possessions, may also be 

 cleared for foreign ports and places, other than those in the said 

 British colonial possessions, being laden with such articles as may be 

 exported from the United States in vessels of the United States. 

 I have, &c. 



S. D. INGHAM. 

 The Collectors of the Customs. 



No. 62. 1832, July 27 : Extract from Dispatch from Lord Goderich 

 to Sir Thomas Cochrane, Governor of Newfoundland, with in- 

 structions in connection with the Establishment for the firai time 

 of a Legislative Assembly. 



DOWNING-STREET, 27 July 1832. 



SIR, I have the honour herewith to transmit to you His Majesty's 

 Commission under the Great Seal, appointing you Governor of the 

 Island of Newfoundland, together with your General Instructions 

 under the Royal Sign Manual, referred to in that Commission. 



As this is the first occasion on which provision has been made 

 for convening of a Legislative Assembly for the Island of New- 

 foundland, the importance of that measure requires that I should 

 not limit myself to the merely formal duty of placing you in posses- 

 sion of these instruments, but that I should shortly explain the 

 grounds and the nature of the policy by which His Majesty's councils 

 on this subject have been directed. 



It were superfluous at the present day to enquire into the wis- 

 dom of that system which was pursued for so many years towards the 

 ancient colony under your government, the fundamental principle 

 of which was to prevent the colonisation of the island, and to render 

 this kingdom the domicile of all persons engaged in the Newfound- 

 land fisheries. The common interest or convenience of those persons 

 virtually defeated the restrictions of the various statutes respecting 

 them, long before Parliament admitted the necessity of repealing 

 those laws. A colony gradually settled itself along the shores of the 

 island, and has of late years assumed a rank of no inconsiderable 

 importance amongst the foreign possessions of the British Crown; 

 but notwithstanding the growing population and the wealth of New- 

 foundland, no plan has hitherto been adopted for regulating such 



