STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1065 



to twenty-five inclusive, relating to the fisheries, shall take effect as 

 soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been 

 passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parlia- 

 ment of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island, 

 on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the 

 other, and that such assent having been given, the said articles shall 

 remain in force for the term of years mentioned in the said article 

 thirty-three; and whereas it is expedient that the laws required to 

 carry the said treaty into effect as respects Canada, should be passed 

 by the Parliament of the Dominion : Therefore Her Majesty, by and 

 with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons 

 of Canada, enacts as follows : 



1. The act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the thirty-first year 

 of Her Majesty's reign, chapter sixty-one, intitled " An Act respecting 

 Fishing ~by Foreign Vessels" arid the Act of the said Parliament 

 passed in the thirty-third year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter fif- 

 teen, intituled: "An Act to amend the Act respecting fishing by For- 

 eign Vessels" and the Act of the said Parliament passed in the 

 thirty-fourth year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter twenty-three, in- 

 tituled: "An Act further to Amend the Act respecting fishing by 

 Foreign Vessels" and the ninety-fourth chapter of the Revised 

 Statutes of Nova Scotia, (third series) intituled: "Of Coast and 

 Deep Sea Fisheries" and the Act of the legislature of Nova Scotia, 

 passed in the twenty-ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter 

 thirty-five, amending the same, and the Act of the legislature of 

 New Brunswick, passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, 

 chapter sixty-nine, intituled "An Act relating to the coast fisheries, 

 and for the preventing of illicit trade" so far as the said Acts of the 

 Legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, respectively, apply 

 to any case to w 7 hich the said Acts of the Parliament of Canada apply, 

 shall be and are hereby suspended as respects vessels and inhabitants 

 of the United States of America engaged in taking fish of every or 

 any kind except shell-fish, on the seacoasts and shores, and in the bays, 

 harbours, and creeks of the Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and 

 New Brunswick, as shall also all Acts, laws, or regulations (if any) 

 over which the Parliament of Canada has control, which would in 

 any wise prevent or impede the full effect of the said Article eighteen. 



2. Fish oil and fish of all kinds (except fish of the inland lakes and 

 of the rivers falling into them, and except fish preserved in oil) 

 being the produce of the fisheries of the United States, shall be ad- 

 mitted into Canada free of duty. 



3. Goods, wares, and merchandize arriving at any of the ports of 

 Canada, and destined for the United States of America, may be en- 

 tered at the proper custom house, and conveyed in transit, without 

 the payment of duties, through Canada, under such rules, regulations, 

 and conditions for the protection of the Revenue, as the Governor in 

 Council may from time to time prescribe ; and under like rules, regu- 

 lations, and conditions, goods, wares and merchandize may be con- 

 veyed in transit, without payment of duties, from the United States 

 through Canada, to other places in the United States, or for export 

 from ports in Canada. 



4. Citizens of the United States may carry in United States' ves- 

 sels, without payment of duty, goods, wares and merchandize from 

 one port or place in Canada to another port or place in Canada, 



