548 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Bojnton, and Pioneer, have severally reported to the Consul-General 

 at Halifax that the subcollector of Customs at Canso had warned 

 them to keep outside an imaginary line drawn from a point three 

 miles outside Canso Head to a point three miles outside St. Esprit, 

 on the Cape Breton Coast, a distance of 40 miles. This line 

 327 for nearly its entire continuance is distant 12 to 25 miles from 

 the coast. The same masters also report that they were warned 

 against going inside an imaginary line drawn from a point three 

 miles outside North Cape, on Prince Edward Island, to a point three 

 miles outside of East Point, on the same island, a distance of over 

 100 miles, and that this last-named line was for nearly that entire 

 distance about 30 miles from the shore. 



The same authority informed the masters of the vessels referred 

 to that the}' would not be permitted to enter Bay Chaleur. 



Such warnings are, as you must be well aware, wholly unwar- 

 ranted pretensions of extra-territorial authority and usurpations of 

 jurisdiction by the provincial officials. 



It becomes my duty, in bringing this information to your ^notice, 

 to request that if any such orders for interference with the unques- 

 tionable rights of the American fishermen to pursue their business 

 without molestation at any point not within three marine miles of 

 the shore, and within the defined limits as to which renunciation of 

 the liberty to fish was expressed in the Treaty of 1818, may have been 

 issued, the same may at once be revoked as violative of the rights of 

 citizens of the United States under Convention with Great Britain. 



I will ask you to bring this subject to the immediate attention of 

 Her Britannic Majesty's Government, to the end that proper remedial 

 orders may be forthwith issued. 



It seems most unfortunate and regretable that questions which 

 have been long since settled between the United States and Great 

 Britain should now be sought to be revived. 



I have, &c., T. F. BAYARD. 



No. 202. 1886, June 30: Letter from Mr. Bayard to Captain Jesse 

 Lewis (from the " New York Herald " of 9th July, 1886). 



DEPARTMENT or STATE, 

 Washington, 30th June, 1886. 

 Captain JESSE LEWIS, 



Owner of the Schooner " David J. Adams" 



Gloucester, Mass. 



SIR, I have your letter, dated the 26th inst. stating the severe loss 

 to you occasioned by the summary seizure by the Canadian authori- 

 ties, in Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, of your fishing schooner the 

 " David J. Adams," which, as you say, is all the property you possess 

 and constituted your only support. 



It is proper that I should inform you that demand was made upon 

 the Government of Great Britain for the release of the vessel, coupled 

 with a notification that that Government would be held answerable 

 for all loss and damage caused by her seizure and detention. Your 

 case commands my sincere sympathy, and ever since it was brought 

 to my knowledge has had the constant consideration of the Depart- 



