494 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



adduced), and concludes with a suggestion that if the Legislature of 

 Newfoundland can not dispense with those provisions altogether, it 

 should pass an Act expressly declaring that they shall have no appli- 

 cation to the citizens of the United States. 



I can only renew the expression of the regret and disappointment 

 which is felt by Her Majesty's Government at the apparent disincli- 

 nation on the part of the Government of the United States to carry 

 out Mr. Evarts' proposal ; and I have to instruct you to read this des- 

 patch to Mr. Frelinghuysen, and to leave a copy of it with him 

 should he desire it, conveying to him at the same time the hope of Her 

 Majesty's Government that, upon further consideration, the Govern- 

 ment of the United States will agree to let the disputed question of 

 Treaty rights remain in abeyance, and will unite with Her Majesty's 

 Government in carrying out the revision of the Fishery Regulations 

 in the spirit and with the object indicated by Mr. Evarts. 

 I am, &c. 



(Signed) GRANVILLE. 



No. 178. 1883, March 3: Termination of the Treaty of Washington. 



JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the termination of Articles numbered eighteen 

 to twenty-five, inclusive, and Article numbered thirty of the Treaty between, 

 the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Wash- 

 ington, May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled : That in the judgment of Congress the provi- 

 sions of Articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and of Article 

 thirty of the Treaty between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, for 

 an amicable settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, 

 concluded at Washington on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hun- 

 dred and seventy-one, ought to be terminated at the earliest possible time, and 

 be no longer in force: and to this end the President be, and he hereby is, 

 directed to give notice to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty that the 

 provisions of each and every of the articles aforesaid, will terminate and be of 

 no force on the expiration of two years next after the time of giving such notice. 



Sec. 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give and communi- 

 cate to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty such notice of such termina- 

 tion on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three or 



as soon thereafter ns may be. 



295 Sec. 3. That on and after the expiration of the two years' time required 

 by said Treaty, each and every of said articles shall be deemed and held 

 to have expired and be of no force and effect, and that every Department of 

 the Government of the United States shall execute the laws of the United 

 States (in the premises) in the same manner and to the same effect as if said 

 articles had never been in force; and the Act of Congress approved 1st March, 

 anno Domini eighteen hundied and seventy three, intituled: "An Act to carry 

 into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great 

 Britain, signed in the City of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," so far as it relates to the 

 articles of said treaty so to be terminated, shall be and stand repealed and be 

 of no force on and after the time of the expiration of the said two years. 



Approved 3rd March, 1883. 



