DESPATCHES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 391 



2. The Canadian Government have refused to continue the system 

 formerly adopted of granting licences to foreigners for the in-shore 

 fisheries, and have expressed their intention to employ Colonial cruis- 

 ers to act as a police force in the prevention of any encroachments. 



(Signed) GEORGE G. WELLESLEY 



Vice Admiral 

 H. M. S. ROYAL ALFRED, AT BERMUDA, 



27th. April 1870. 



233 [Appendix (A), enclosed In above.] 



NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES. 



Letter Respecting Instructions to be Sent to the Admiral on the 

 North American Station, with Reference to the Determination of 

 the Reciprocity Treaty. 



Confidential. 



Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the 

 Lords of the Admiralty. 



DOWNING STREET, April 12th. 1866. 



MY LORDS, The determination of the Reciprocity Treaty contracted 

 in 1854 between Great Britain and the United States revives the 1st. 

 Article of a Convention of the 20th. of October, 1818, with various 

 Imperial and Colonial Acts enumerated in the margin, 6 of which the 

 operation had been suspended during the continuance of the Treaty 

 by the Imperial Act 18 & 19 Viet., cap. 3, sec. 1, or otherwise. 



The precise provisions of that Article will be seen by reference to 

 the Convention. Its general result is as follows : 



1. American fishermen may fish, " in common with the subjects of 

 Her Britannic Majesty," in certain specified parts of Newfoundland 

 and Labrador, and on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, with liberty 

 to dry and cure fish on the shores of certain of the unsettled or with 

 the consent of the inhabitants of the settled bays, harbours, and 

 creeks of Newfoundland and Labrador. 



2. Except within the above limits American fishermen are not to 

 take, dry, or cure fish on or within three miles of the coasts, bays, 

 creeks, and harbours of British North America. But they may enter 

 such bays and harbours for certain specified purposes under such 

 restrictions as may be necessary to prevent abuse by fishing or other- 

 wise. 



I. With regard to Newfoundland and Labrador, the Convention 

 does but continue within certain geographical limits, and subject to a 

 qualification in respect to the curing of fish, the privileges which have 



Copy annexed. 



6 Imperial, 59 Geo. Ill, c. 38. Nova Scotian Revised Statutes (3rd Series), 

 c. 94, ss. 1-18. New Brunswick, 16 Viet., c. 69, ss. 1-18. Prince Edward Island", 

 6 Viet., c. 14, declared to contain the Fishery Regulations by Order in Council 

 of 3rd. September, 1844. (Copies annexed.) 



