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day, communicated with the Secretary of State of the United 

 206 States upon this subject, and suggested the expediency of 



adopting some means of making American citizens, concerned 

 in the prosecution of the fisheries, acquainted with these laws and 

 regulations. 



Mr. Marcy entirely concurs with me in the opinion that such a 

 measure would be calculated to prevent the occurrence of any mis- 

 understanding on the part of American fishermen, who may now 

 resort to New Brunswick for the purpose of exercising their newly 

 acquired rights under the Treaty of Reciprocity, and proposes that, 

 after the documents with which Your Excellency is about to furnish 

 me shall have been examined by him, and shall have been found, 

 as he doubts not will be the case, to contain no provisions inconsistent 

 with the full enjoyment of the American citizens of the rights of 

 fishing secured them by the Treaty, and to direct the " Collectors of 

 the United States' Customs " to furnish copies of the same to the 

 masters of all the vessels clearing from American ports to the British 

 fisheries. 



I will observe that I am not in possession of the collection of docu- 

 ments published from Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1853, to 

 which Your Excellency alludes, and that I should consequently feel 

 obliged, should your Excellency be so kind as to furnish me with 

 a copy of the collection. 



I have, &c., (Signed) JOHN F. CRAMPTON. 



H.E. The Honble J. H. T. MANNERS SUTTON 



&c &c &c 



No. 124. 1855, June: Letter from Mr. Grampian to the Earl of 

 Clarendon (British Foreign Secretary}. 



No. 129. WASHINGTON June 1855 



MY LORD I have the honour to enclose the copy of a letter which 

 I have received from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick 

 regarding the laws & local regulations, affecting the fisheries of that 

 Province ; & I have also the honour to enclose a copy of my reply to 

 His Excellency's communication. 



Your Lordship will perceive that it is Mr. Manners' Sutton's object, 

 to prevent the occurrence of disputes between provincial & American 

 fishermen; arising out of violations, by the latter, of those laws & 

 local regulations by which the fishermen of New Brunswick are 

 bound. 



I have thought this a subject of sufficient importance to bring it 

 under the attention of the Government of the United States, with 

 a view to the adoption of such measures as may, as much as possible, 

 prevent the occurrence of any misunderstanding on the part of 

 American citizens, who, in the exercise of their newly acquired right 

 under the Reciprocity Treaty, may resort to the fisheries of New 

 Brunswick. 



I found every disposition on Mr. Marcy's part to concur with the 

 British provincial authorities in the adoption of any measures of 

 precaution by which the chances of collision between the fishermen 



