954 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Belleisle, and thence northwardly indefinitely along the coast without 

 prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive rights of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company; and it was also by the said article of the said conven- 

 tion, agreed, that the American fishermen should have liberty for ever 

 to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks 

 of the southern part of the coast of Newfoundland above described, 

 and of the coast of Labrador; but that so soon as the same or any 

 portion thereof should be settled, it should not be lawful for the said 

 fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portions so settled without pre- 

 vious agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, 

 or possessors of the ground: And whereas it is expedient that lli> 

 Majesty should be enabled to carry into execution so much of the said 

 convention as is above recited, and to make regulations for that pur- 

 pose:" "it shall and may be lawful, from and after the passing of 

 the said Act, for His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Majesty V 

 Privy Council, by any order or orders in council to be from time to 

 time made for that purpose, to make such regulations and to give such 

 directions, orders, and instructions to the governor of Newfoundland, 

 or to any officer or officers on that station, or to any other person or 

 persons whomsoever, as shall or may be from time to time deemed 

 proper and necessary for the carrying into effect the purposes of the 

 said convention with relation to the taking, drying, and curing of 

 fish by inhabitants of the United States of America in common with 

 the British subjects, within the limits set forth in the said article of 

 the said convention, any Act or Acts of Parliament, or any law, cus- 

 tom, or usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding." It is 

 ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and 

 on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice o'f His 

 Majesty's Privy Council, in pursuance of the powers vested in His 

 Majesty by the said Act, that the governor of Newfoundland do give 

 notice to all His Majesty's subjects being in or resorting to the said 

 ports, that they are not to interrupt in any manner the aforesaid 

 fishery so as aforesaid allowed to be carried on by the inhabitants of 

 the said United States in common with His Majesty's subjects on the 



said coasts, within the limits assigned to them by the said 

 567 treaty: and that the governor of Newfoundland do conform 



himself to the said treaty, and to such instructions as he shall 

 from time to time receive thereon in conformity to (he said treaty, 

 and to the above-recited Act, from one of His Majesty's Principal 

 Secretaries of State, anything in His Majesty's commission under the 

 Great Seal, constituting him governor and commander-in-chief in and 

 over the said Island of Newfoundland in America, and of the islands 

 and territories thereunto belonging, or in His Majesty's general in- 

 structions to the said governor, to the contrary notwithstanding ; and 

 His Royal Highness, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, 

 doth hereby annul and make void each and every of the said general 

 instructions which are or shall be deemed contrary to the intent and 

 meaning of the said convention and of the said Act. And the Right 

 Honourable Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries 

 of State, is to take the necessary measures therein accordingly. 



(Signed) JAS. BULLER. 



