346 APPENDIX TO BEITISH CASE. 



No. 122. 7555, June 16: Letter from Mr. Manners Button (Lieuten- 

 ant-Govemor of New Brunswick) to Mr. Crampton (British Min- 

 ister at Washington). 



Private GOVT HOUSE FREDERICTON N. BRUNSWICK 



June 16th 1855. 



SIR, I have the honor to inform yr. Ex: that I have received in- 

 structions from H.M's Govt to transmit to yr Ex, copies of all the 

 laws & regulations, whether statutory or local, which affect the out- 

 side fisheries, & the fisheries in the harbors, of this province. 



The statutory regulations are contained in one Act: ch: 101 title 

 22 : of the Revised Statutes of New Brunswick. 



The local regulations, are of two different kinds Istly those, which, 

 under the provisions of the 6th seen of the Act : referred to, have been 

 made by the Governor in Council; & 21y those which the Justices in 

 Session of the respective counties are empowered, by the Provincial 

 Act ch : 64 title 8 : of the Revised Statutes to make for the govt of 

 fisheries within the rivers & harbors of the several counties. 



The local regulations of the last mentioned description, altho' 

 issued in many counties, & having the force of law, were not included 

 in the collection, published from H.M's Stationery Office in 1853, 

 because, as appears from a despatch from Sir E. Head to the Duke of 

 Newcastle, which is printed in page 37 of that paper, of which yr 

 Ex no doubt has a copy, these regulations were at the time consid- 

 ered to be immaterial, inasmuch as they do not affect the outside 

 fisheries. But yr Ex : will observe that they do, in some instances at 

 least, affect the fisheries in the harbors of this province, which are 

 now thrown open to the fishermen of the U.S. as well as the river 

 fisheries, which are reserved to H.M's subjects. 



Considerable anxiety is felt & expressed here, lest the rules, which 

 have been deemed necessary for the preservation of the fisheries of 

 the province, & by which the fishermen of the province are themselves 

 bound, may be disregarded by those who are now admitted to an equal 

 participation with them in the fisheries ; but yr Ex : may feel as- 

 sured that there is no disposition, either on the part of the Provincial 

 Authorities or of the fishermen themselves to deprive the citizens of 

 the U.S. of the full benefit of that Article of the Treaty of Reciproc- 

 ity, by which the U.S. fishermen enjoy in common with H.M's subjects 

 the right of fishing both on the outside fishing grounds & in the har- 

 bors of this province. 

 I have &c 



(Signed) J. H. T. MANNERS SUTTON 



J. F. CKAMPTON ESQRE 



&c &c &c 



No. 123. 1855, June 27 : Letter from Mr. Crampton to Mr. Manners 

 Sutton (the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick). 



WASHINGTON June 27th 1855 



SIR, I have to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's des- 

 patch of the 16th instant, respecting the laws and regulations which 

 affect the fisheries of the Province of New Brunswick. I have, to- 



