210 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



lection and condemnation in the Court of Vice Admiralty of Nova 

 Scotia 



That no regulations having been adopted (as your House of Assem- 

 bly believe) for the same salutary purposes in the provinces of New 

 Brunswick, Prince Edward Island the Canadas and Newfoundland 

 the revenue vessels employed by the Government of this province 

 cannot make seizures because the encroachments are beyond the 

 operation of the said law which is confined to the province and there- 

 fore it becomes indispensable for the preservation of the valuable 

 source of wealth with which Providence has blessed these Colonies, 

 that similar regulations should be granted by your Majesty for all 

 the Colonies. And your Assembly solicit your Royal attention to 

 the accompanying code as well adapted for such important purpose 



That the citizens of the United States pass through the Strait of 



Canso a narrow strip of w y ater completely within and dividing several 



counties of this province whereby they violate the letter and spirit 



of the Treaty or Convention of 1818 to the detriment of your Maj- 



6tKS people; and on the shores of the Magdalen Islands they con- 



of comm&shery in a manner destructive thereof by taking herring 



give the requin those shores at the time they are casting their spawn. 



jralWrei-ot the solicitude of your Majesty for the happiness and 



welfare of your faithful North American subjects your Assembly 



humbly prays encouragement and protection of their commerce and 



fishery and as they have appointed revenue cutters for such service 



that your Majesty will order armed vessels to aid them in such 



laudable undertaking and extend to your loyal subjects of Nova 



Scotia that protection which may be consistent with the claims of 



other portions of your Majestys extensive dominions 



In the House of Assembly 27th March 1840 



S. G. W. ARCHIBALD Speaker. 



124 No. 72. 1841, February 20: Letter from Mr. Forsyth (United 

 States Secretary of State] , to Mr. Stevenson (United States 

 Minister at London}. 



[No. 89.] DEPARTMENT or STATE, 



Washington, February 20, 18^1. 



SIR: At the time of addressing you the instructions numbered 71, 

 of 17th of April last, relating to the interruptions experienced by 

 the vessels of our citizens employed in intercourse with the ports of 

 Nova Scotia, and in the prosecution of the fisheries on the neighbour- 

 ing coasts, it was deemed expedient, before presenting through you 

 the latter branch of the subject to Her Majestj^'s Government in a 

 formal manner, to await the communication to this department of a 

 case in which the details of the seizure the grounds on which it was 

 made, and the consequent judicial and other proceedings should be 

 fully set forth. Several cases of seizures and detention have, as was 

 apprehended, occurred since the date of my letter, but none of those 

 reported to the department have been presented in a form to fulfil 

 the expectation entertained that the Government would be enabled to 

 found upon it a specific complaint against the conduct of the local 



