344 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



to all bays, creeks, or harbours whatever named in the Treaty, with- 

 out any restriction as to distance from the shore; and consequently 

 can have no reference whatever to their dimensions, or in any 

 way modify the sense of the words of the preceding clause of this 



Article. 



204 I have much satisfaction in calling your Lordship's atten- 

 tion to the letter from Mr. Louis A. Kimberley of the United 

 States Navy, to Captain Whittle, dated August 30, 1853 (page 20), 

 being one of the papers accompanying Mr. Dobbin's report, which 

 contains an account of the humane and gallant exertions of that officer 

 and his boat's crew, in saving the officers and crew of the British 

 vessel " Cleopatra," under circumstances of great danger and difficulty. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) JOHN F. CRAMPTON. 



No. 120. 1855, May 5: Letter from Lieutenant-Governor of New 

 Brunswick to Lord John Russell (British Colonial Secretary). 



No. 38 GOVERNMENT HOUSE, FREDERICTON NEW BRUNSWICK, 



May 5th, 1855. 



MY LORD: Although the Treaty recently concluded between Her 

 Majesty and the United States of America has been for some months 

 in full operation, so far as it affects the commercial intercourse be- 

 tween this Province and the United States, yet, as the fishing season 

 of last year was at an end before this Treaty was carried into effect, 

 and the season for the present year has not commenced, that part of 

 the Treaty which relates to the fisheries has hitherto been, and still 

 is practically in abeyance. 



The period however is now rapidly approaching, when the fish- 

 ermen of this Province will recommence operations; and I do not 

 doubt that large numbers of the United States fishermen will hasten 

 to avail themselves of the rights, which they possess under the Treaty 

 to which I have referred. 



The readiness with which an Act was passed by the Provincial 

 Legislature to carry this Treaty fully into effect in this Province 

 is of itself a sufficient proof that there is no disposition here to 

 exclude the citizens of the United States from the practical enjoyment 

 of all the rights conferred on them by the Treaty; and I have no 

 ground whatever for believing that the fishermen of the Province 

 are inclined to obstruct the full exercise of these rights, provided that 

 the Laws and Regulations, by which they are themselves bound, 

 are likewise observed by the fishermen from the United States. 



But should the United States fishermen from ignorance or from 

 any other cause violate or disregard these Laws and Regulations, a 

 different feeling might probably arise, and there would be reason to 

 apprehend dissatisfaction among the fishermen of this Province, 

 and a renewal of misunderstandings and disputes between Her 

 Majesty's subjects and the citizens of the United States, the pre- 

 vention of which, as appears from the preamble of the Treaty, was 

 one of the principal objects of that Treaty. 



The general statutory regulations respecting the fisheries of New 

 Brunswick are contained in one Act, C. 101. Title. 22. of the Revised 



