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three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks and harbors in 

 Canada, or to enter such bays, harbors and creeks, except for the 

 purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing 

 wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever; of 

 all of which you will take notice and govern yourself accordingly. 



(Sd.) GEORGE E. FOSTER, 



Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 

 DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES, 



Ottawa, 5th March, 1886. 



No. 183. 1886, March %9: Letter from Sir L. S. S. West Minister at 

 "Washington to the Governor General of Canada. 



[No. 30.] WASHINGTON, 29th March, 1886. 



MY LORD, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that the 

 American Consul-General at Halifax is reported to have argued that 

 there is nothing in the Treaty of 1818 to prevent Americans having 

 caught fish in deep water and cured them from landing them in a 

 marketable condition at any Canadian port and transhipping them 

 in bond to the United States, either by rail or vessel, and that more- 

 over a refusal to permit the transportation would be a violation to 

 [of] the general bonding arrangement between the two countries. 

 I have, &c. 



(Sd.) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



His Excellency The GOVERNOR-GENERAL. 



298 No. 184. 1886. April 6: Report of a Committee of the Privy 

 Council for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Gov- 

 ernor-General in Council. 



The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration 

 a despatch, dated the 29th March, 1886, from Her Majesty's Min- 

 ister at Washington, informing your Excellency that the United 

 States' Consul General at Halifax was reported to have argued that 

 there is nothing in the Convention of 1818 to prevent Americans, 

 having caught fish in deep water and cured them, from landing them 

 in a marketable condition at any Canadian port and transhipping 

 them in bond to the United States either by rail or vessel, and that 

 any refusal to permit such transhipment would be a violation of the 

 general bonding arrangement between the two countries. 



The Sub-Committee to whom the despatch in question was re- 

 ferred report that if the contention of the United States' Consul at 

 Halifax is made in relation to American fishing-vessels, it is incon- 

 sistent with the Convention of 1818. 



That they are of opinion, from the language of that Convention 

 "Provided, however, that the American fishermen shall be permitted 

 to enter such bays or harbors for the purposes of shelter, and of 

 repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining 

 water and for no other purpose whatever" that, under the terms 



