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feeling and to remove all possible subjects of controversy, the British 

 Plenipotentiaries are ready to make the following temporary arrange- 

 ment for a period not exceeding two years, in order to afford a 

 ' modus vivendi " pending the ratification of the Treaty. 



1. For a period not exceeding two years from the present date, the 

 privilege of entering the bays and harbors of the Atlantic coasts of 

 Canada and Newfoundland shall be granted to United States fishing 

 vessels by annual Licenses at a fee of $1 J per ton for the following 

 purposes : 



The purchase of bait, ice, seines, lines, and all other supplies and 

 outfits. 



Transshipment of catch and shipping of crews. 



2. If during the continuance of this arrangement, the United 

 States should remove the duties on fish, fish-oil, whale and seal oil 

 (and their coverings, packages, &c.), the said Licenses shall be issued 

 free of charge. 



3. United States fishing vessels entering the bays and harbors of 

 the Atlantic coasts of Canada or of Newfoundland for any of the four 

 purposes mentioned in Article I. of the Convention of October 20, 

 1818, and not remaining therein more than twenty-four hours, shall 

 not be required to enter or clear at the custom house, providing that 

 they do not communicate with the shore. 



4. Forfeiture to be exacted only for the offences of fishing or pre- 

 paring to fish in territorial waters. 



5. This arrangement to take effect as soon as the necessary meas- 

 ures can be completed by the Colonial Authorities. 



J. CHAMBERLAIN. 

 L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 

 CHARLES TUPPER. 

 WASHINGTON, February 15, 1888. 



PROTOCOL. 



The American Plenipotentiaries having received the communica- 

 tion of the British Plenipotentiaries of this date conveying their 

 plan for the administration to be observed by the Governments of 

 Canada and Newfoundland in respect of the Fisheries during the 

 period which may be requisite for the consideration by the Senate 

 of the Treaty this day signed, and the enactment of the legislation 

 by the respective Governments therein proposed, desire to express 

 their satisfaction with this manifestation of an intention on the part 

 of the British Plenipotentiaries, by the means referred to, to main- 

 tain the relations of good neighborhood between the British Posses- 

 sions in North America and the United States; and they will convey 

 the communication of the British Plenipotentiaries to the President 

 of the United States, w 7 ith a recommendation that the same may be 

 by him made known to the Senate for its information, together with 

 the Treaty, when the latter is submitted to that body for ratification. 



T. F. BAYARD. 



WILLIAM L. PUTNAM. 



JAMES B. ANGELL. 

 WASHINGTON, February 15, 1888. 



