712. APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



by these Presents name, make, constitute and appoint them Our 

 undoubted Plenipotentiaries : Giving to them, or to any two of them. 

 all manner of power and authority to treat, adjust, and conclude, 

 with such plenipotentiaries as may be vested with similar power and 

 authority on the part of Our Good Friends the United States of 

 America, any Treaties, Conventions, or Agreements that may tend to 

 the attainment of the above-mentioned end, and to sign for Us and 

 in Our Name, everything so agreed upon and concluded, and to do 

 and transact all such other matters as may appertain to the finish- 

 ing of the aforesaid work in as ample manner and form, and with 

 equal force and efficiency as We Ourselves could do if Personally 

 present : Engaging and promising upon Our Royal Word that what- 

 ever things shall be so transacted and concluded by Our said Pleni- 

 potentiaries shall be agreed to, acknowledged, and accepted by Us 

 in the fullest manner, and that We will never suffer, either in the 

 whole or in part, any person whatsoever to infringe the same, or act 

 contrary thereto, as far as it lies in Our Power. In witness whereof 

 We have caused the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland to be affixed to these Presents which We have 

 signed with Our Royal Hand. Given at Our Court at Balmoral 

 the twenty-fourth day of October in the }^ear of Our Lord one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and in the fifty-first year of 

 Our Reign. 



The British Plenipotentiaries proposed that Mr. Bayard, Secre- 

 tary of State of the United States, should preside. 



Mr. Bayard, while expressing appreciation of the proposal, stated 

 the opinion, in which the other United States Plenipotentiaries con- 

 curred, that it was not necessary that any one should preside; and 

 the proposal was permitted to rest. 



Mr. John B. Moore, Third Assistant Secretary of State of the 

 United States, acting as Secretary to the United States Plenipoten- 

 tiaries, and Mr. J. H. G. Bergne, C. M. G., Superintendent of the 

 Treaty Department of the British Foreign Office, acting as secretary 

 to the British Plenipotentiaries, were requested to make the Proto- 

 cols of the Conference. 



After some discussion of questions before the Conference, it was 

 adjourned to 12 o'clock m. of the 28th of November. 



PROTOCOL. 



The treaty having been signed by the British Plenipotentiaries 

 desire to state that they have been considering the position which 

 will be created by the immediate commencement of the fishing season 

 before the Treaty can possibly be ratified by the Senate of the United 

 States, by the Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of New- 

 foundland. 



In the absence of such ratification the old conditions which have 

 given rise to so much friction and irritation might be revived, and 

 might interfere with the unprejudiced consideration of the Treaty by 



the legislative bodies concerned. 



427 Under these circumstances, and with the further object of 

 affording evidence of their anxious desire to promote good 



