496 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Xo. 180. 1885 j December: Extract from President's Annual Mes- 

 sage to United States Congress. 



The marked good-will between the United States and Great Britain has been 

 maintained during the past year. 



The termination of the fishery clauses of the Treaty of Washington, in pur- 

 suance of the Joint Resolution of 3rd March, 1883, must have resulted in 

 296 the abrupt cessation on the 1st of July of this year, in the midst of their 

 ventures, of the operations of the citizens of the United States engaged in 

 fishing in British American waters but for a diplomatic understanding reached 

 with Her Majesty's Government in June last, whereby assurance was obtained 

 that no interruption of those operations should take place during the current 

 fishing season. 



In the interest of good neighbourhood and of the commercial intercourse of 

 adjacent communities, the question of the North American fisheries is one of 

 much importance. 



Following out the intimation given by me when the extensory arrangement 

 above described was negotiated, I recommend that the Congress provide for 

 the appointment of a Commission in which the Governments of the United 

 States and Great Britain shall be respectively represented, charged with the 

 consideration and settlement, upon a just, equitable and honourable basis, of the 

 entire question of the fishing rights of the two Governments and their respective 

 citizens on the coasts of the United States and British North America. The 

 fishing interests being intimately related to other general questions dependant 

 upon contiguity and intercourse, consideration thereof, in all their equities, 

 might also properly come within the purview of such a commission, and the 

 fullest latitude of expression on both sides should be permitted. 



No. 181. 1886, April 14: Extract from Report of United States' 



Committee on Foreign Relations. 

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In the opinion of the Senate the appointment of a Commission, in which the 

 Governments of the United States and Great Britain shall be represented, 

 charged with the consideration and settlement of the fishing rights of the two 

 Governments, on the coasts of the United States and British North America, 

 ought not to be provided for by Congress. 



No. 182. 1886, March 5: Warning issued ~by the Canadian Minister 

 of Marine and Fisheries. 



WARNING TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 



The Government of the United States having by notice terminated 

 Articles 18 to 25, both inclusive, and Article 30, known as the Fishery 

 Articles of the Washington Treaty, attention is called to the follow- 

 ing provision of the Convention between the United States and 

 Great Britain, signed at London, on the 20th October, 1818 : 



Article 1st. Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty claimed 

 by the United States, for the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry and cure fish, 

 on certain coasts, bays, harbors and creeks of his Britannic Majesty's Domin- 

 ions in America, it is agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the 

 inhabitants of the said United States shall have, forever, in common with the 

 subjects of His Britanrfic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind on 



