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trial before the Vice- Admiralty Court at Halifax. If, however, the 

 said commanding officers should differ in opinion, they shall name 

 some third person to act as umpire between them, and should they be 

 unable to agree upon the name of such third person, they shall each 

 name a person, and it shall be determined by lot which of the two 

 persons so named shall be the umpire. 



ARTICLE IV. 



The fishing vessels of the United States shall have- in the estab- 

 lished ports of entry of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions in 

 America the same commercial privileges as other vessels of the 

 364 United States, including the purchase of bait and other sup- 

 plies; and such privileges shall be exercised subject to the same 

 rules and regulations and payment of the same port charges as are 

 prescribed for other vessels of the United States. 



ARTICLE V. 



The Government of Her Britannic Majesty agree to release all 

 United States fishing vessels now under seizure for failing to report 

 at custom houses when seeking shelter, repairs, or supplies, and to 

 refund all fines exacted for such failure to report. And the High 

 Contracting Parties agree to appoint a joint commission to ascertain 

 the amount of damage caused to American fishermen during the year 

 year 1886 by seizure and detention in violation of the Treaty of 

 1818, said commission to make awards therefor to the parties injured. 



ARTICLE VI. 



The Government of the United States and the Government of Her 

 Britannic Majesty agree to give concurrent notification and warning 

 of Canadian Customs Regulations, and the United States agrees to 

 admonish its fishermen to comply with them, and co-operate in secur- 

 ing their enforcement. 



No. 225. 1886, December 16: Letter from Lord Iddesleigh (British 



Foreign Secretary] to Mr. Phelps (United States Minister at 



London). 



FOREIGN OFFICE, December 16, 1886. 



SIR: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note 

 of the 27th ultimo relative to the case of the Marion Grimes, stated 

 to have been fined and detained at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in Octo- 

 ber last. 



As other cases besides that of the Marion Grimes are alluded to 

 in the documents forwarded in your note, it will be desirable to take 

 each case separately, and to inform you shortly of the steps which 

 Her Majesty's Government have taken in regard to them. 



In respect to the case of the Marion Grimes, I have already re- 

 ceived, through Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, a 

 copy of a despatch frqm the Dominion Government, in which they 

 express their regret at the action taken by Captain Quigley in haul- 



