DESPATCHES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



699 



by Treaty or by laws mutually acknowledged and accepted by the 

 President of the' United States, by and with the consent of the Senate 



and by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. 

 416 Pending a definitive arrangement on the subject, the United 



States' Government engages to give all proper orders to officers 

 in its employment: and Her Britannic Majesty's Government en- 

 gages to instruct the proper Colonial or other British officers to 

 abstain from hostile acts against British and United States' fishermen 

 respectively." 



No. 238. 1887, July 1%: Letter from Mr. Bayard to Mr. Phelps, 

 enclosing copy proposed Arrangement with British Observations 

 thereon and reply of United States thereto. 



(Extract.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington, July 12, 1887. 



SIR : On March 24 l&st the Marquis of Salisbury made reply to your 

 note to him of December 3, 188G, and communicated the views of the 

 Canadian Government upon the ad interim arrangement proposed 

 by the Government of the United States, under date of the 15th of 

 November preceding, for the settlement of the fishery disputes. 



This reply of his lordship and the " observations " of the Cana- 

 dian authorities upon the proposal for an arrangement were con- 

 veyed in Mr. White's dispatch of March 30th, and received at this 

 Department April 11 last, when it had my immediate consideration. 



An answer was prepared forthwith to the note of his lordship, as 

 well as to the " observations," and I now enclose two copies of the 

 latter, which, for convenience and intelligibility, has been printed as 

 a third parallel column to the original proposal and the Canadian 

 " observations." 



I am, etc., T. F. BAYARD. 



FISHERIES ARRANGEMENT PROPOSED BY UNITED STATES. WITH " OBSER- 

 VATIONS" OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND REPLY OF GOVERNMENT OF 

 UNITED STATES. 



Ad interim Arrangement 

 proposed &y the United 

 States' Government. 



ARTICLE I. 



WHEREAS, in the 1st 

 Article of the Convention 

 between the United 

 Stales and Great Britain, 

 concluded and signed in 

 Txmdon on the 20th Octo- 

 ber, 1818, it was agreed 

 between the High Con- 

 tracting Parties " that the 

 inhabitants of the said 

 United States shall have 

 for ever, in common with 

 the subjects of His Bri- 

 tannic Majesty, the lib- 



erty to take fish of every 

 kind on that part of the 

 southern coast of New- 

 foundland which extends 

 from Cape Ray to the Ra- 

 meau Islands, on the 

 western and northern 

 coast of Newfoundland, 

 from the said Cape Ray 

 to the Quirnon Islands, 

 on the shores of the Mag- 

 dalen Islands, and also 

 on the coasts, bays, har- 

 bours, and creeks, from 

 Mount Joly on the south- 

 ern coast of Labrador, to 

 and through the Straits 

 of Belleisle, and thence 

 northwardly indefinitely 

 along the coast, without 



prejudice, however, to 

 any of the exclusive 

 rights of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company; and that 

 the American fisher- 

 men shall also 

 417 have liberty for 

 ever to dry and 

 cure fish in any of the un- 

 settled bays, harbours, 

 and creeks of the south- 

 ern part of the coast of 

 Newfoundland, here above 

 described, and of the 

 coast of Labrador; but 

 so soon as the same, or 

 any portion thereof, shall 

 be settled, it shall not be 

 lawful for the said fisher- 

 men to dry or cure fish at 



