DESPATCHES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 209 



This was afterwards ordered to be restored to the owners, but had 

 already been sold ; and the proceeds are now in the hands of the col- 

 lector of customs at Charlestown, subject to the orders of the honor- 

 able the board of customs in London, and cannot be claimed by the 

 owners without first entering into bonds probably ten times the 

 amount of salt seized. 



I believe that a consul, to reside at Charlottetown, with the usual 

 power of appointing agents, would be a means of preventing future 

 difficulties; the only intercourse with the authorities now being 

 through a consular agent appointed by Consul James Primrose, of 

 Pictou, in another province. 



I have the honour to subscribe myself, with high respect, your 

 obedient servant, 



JNO. S. PAINE, 

 Lieut. Comtfg U. S. Schooner Grampus. 



Hon. JOHN FOKSYTH, Secretary of State. 



No. 71. 1840, March 27: Address of the House of A .^rtment, it ap- 



SCO tld. i ' . A o A- mpr- 



To the Queens Most Excellent Majesty. 



May it please your Majesty 



We your Majestys dutiful and loyal subjects the representatives of 

 your Majestys loyal people of Nova Scotia humbly approach your 

 Majesty with their complaints against the citizens of the United 

 States of America who continue to disregard the terms and pro- 

 visions of Treaties existing between the two nations by encroaching 

 on the reserved fishing grounds of this province and the adjoining 

 Colonies to the detriment and injury of the inhabitants thereof 



Your Majesty's Council and Assembly in 1838 approached your 

 Majesty's Throne with an Address humbly referring your Majesty 

 to the Convention of 1818 between your Majestys Government and 

 that Republic and to the Report of this House of 1837 as exhibiting 

 the gross violation of the rights of the inhabitants of the Lower 

 Provinces, and your people regret that the defective state of the regu- 

 lations for the protection of the British North American fisheries 

 still permits such infringements with comparative impunity. 



Although the Convention of 1818 secured to the people of Great 

 Britain and your Majesty's Dominions in America certain rights of 

 exclusive fishery on the shores of such provinces and the citizens of 

 the United States renounced for ever any liberty enjoyed or claimed 

 by the inhabitants thereof to take dry or cure fish within three marine 

 miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks or harbours not included 

 within certain limits mentioned in said Convention no rules or regu- 

 lations were adopted to prevent the abuse of the privileges added to 

 the United States until 1836 when His late Majesty William the 

 Fourth signified his Royal assent to a statute of this province em- 

 bodying rules and regulations for the fishery thereof the operation 

 of which has been most wholesome and has curbed the illegal tres- 

 passes of foreigners by subjecting their vessels to forfeiture or de- 

 92909 S. Doc. 870, 61-3, vol 4 24 



