946 . APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



No. 24. 1788: British Statute, 28 Geo. Ill, Cap. 35. 



An Act to enable His Majesty to make such Regulations as may be necessary 

 to prevent the inconvenience which might arise from the competition of His 

 Majesty's subjects and those of the Most Christian Kiug, in carrying on the 

 Fishery on the Coasts of the Island of Newfoundland. 



"Whereas, by the thirteenth article of the treaty concluded at 

 Utrecht on the fourth day of April, new style, in the year of our 

 Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirteen, between Her late 



Majesty Queen Anne and the Most Christian King Louis the 

 562 Fourteenth, it was, among: other things, agreed, that the island 



called Newfoundland, with the adjacent islands, should, from 

 that time forward, belong to right wholly to Britain; and to that 

 end the town and fortress of Placentia, and whatever other places 

 in the said island were in the possession of the French, should be 

 yielded and given up, within seven months from the exchange of the 

 ratification of that treaty, or sooner if possible, by the Most Chris- 

 tian King, to those who had a commission from the Queen of Great 

 Britain for that purpose; nor should the Most Christian King, his 

 heirs or successors, or any of their subjects, at any time thereafter, 

 lay claim to any right to the said island and islands, or to any part 

 of them ; moreover, it should not be lawful for the subjects of France 

 to fortify any place in the said Island of Newfoundland, or to erect 

 any buildings there, besides stages made of boards, and huts nec- 

 essary and useful for drying of fish, or to resort to the said island be- 

 yond the time necessary for fishing and drying fish: that it should 

 be allowed to the subjects of France to catch fish, and to dry them on 

 land, on that part only, and in none other besides that part of the 

 Island of Newfoundland, which stretches from the place called Cape 

 Bonayista, to the northern point of the said island, and from thence 

 running down by the western side, and reaches as far as the place 

 called Cape Riche: And whereas, by the fifth article of the treaty of 

 peace, concluded at Paris on the tenth day of February one thousand 

 seven hundred and sixty-three, between His Majesty and the late 

 Most Christian King Louis the Fifteenth, and His Most Catholic 

 Majesty, it was, among other things, agreed, that the subjects of 

 France should have the liberty of fishing and drying on a part of 

 the coast of the Island of Newfoundland, such as is specified in the 

 thirteenth article of the treaty of Utrecht, which article is confirmed 

 and renewed by the present treaty : And whereas, by the fifth article 

 of the definitive treaty of peace, concluded at Versailles, between His 

 Majesty and the Most Christian King, on the third day of September 

 one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, it was, among other 

 things, agreed, that His Majesty, the King of Great Britain, should 

 be maintained in his right to the Island of Newfoundland, and to 

 the adjacent islands, as the whole were assured to him by the thir- 

 teenth article of the treaty of Utrecht, excepting the Islands of 

 Saint Pier-re and Migiielon, which were ceded in full right, by the 

 said treaty of the third day of September one thousand seven hundred 

 and eighty-three, to His Most Christian Majesty; and that His 

 Majesty, the Most Christian King, in order to prevent the quarrels 

 which had before then arisen between the two nations of England 

 and France, consented to remove the right of fishing which belonged 

 to him in virtue of the aforesaid article of the treaty of Utrecht, 



