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17. The Governor in Council may appoint the Collector of Revenue 

 for Labrador, or other person, to be superintendent of the fisheries 

 on the coast of this Island and its dependencies, and may also appoint 

 fishery wardens, and prescribe their duties for the purposes or this 

 chapter. The compensation for the services of such officers to be pro- 

 vided by the Legislature. 



18. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the rights and privileges 

 granted by treaty to the subjects of any state or power in amity with 

 Her Majesty. 



No. 117. 1873, May 5: Newfoundland Statute, 36 Viet., Cap. 3. 



An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, one thousand eight hundred and 



seventy-one. 



Section. 



1. Suspension of Acts at variance with 



Articles. Proviso. 



2. Powers given to Governor in Coun- 



cil. 



[Passed 5th May, 1873.-] 



Section. 



3. Act not to come into force until Her 



Majesty's assent be given, and 



Proclamation issued. 



Whereas a Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of 



America was signed at Washington on the eighth day of May, One 



Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-one, and was duly ratified on 



the seventeenth day of June in that year, which, amongst other things. 



containing the following article : 



706 It is further agreed that the provisions and stipulations of Articles 

 eighteen to twenty-five of this Treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the 

 Colony of Newfoundland, so far as they are applicable; but if the Imperial 

 Parliament, the Legislature of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United 

 States, shall not embrace the Colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted 

 for carrying the foregoing Articles into effect, then this Article shall be of no 

 effect; but the omission to make provision by law to give it effect, by either 

 of the Legislative Bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other 

 Articles of this Treaty. 



And Whereas it is expedient to provide for giving effect, as regards 

 the Island ef Newfoundland and its Dependencies, to said Articles, 

 eighteen to twenty-five of said Treaty, inclusive, so far as they are 

 applicable to this Colony. 



Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council and 

 Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 



I. As soon as the Law required to carry into operation, on the part 

 of the United States af America, the Articles set out in the Schedule 

 to this Act, has been passed by the Congress of the United States, and 

 come into force, all Laws of this Colony which operate to prevent the 

 said Articles from taking full effect, shall, so far as they so operate, 

 be suspended and have no effect during the period mentioned in the 

 Article numbered Thirty-three in the Schedule to this Act : Provided 

 that such Laws, rules and regulations, relating to the time and man- 

 ner of prosecuting the Fisheries on the Coasts of this Island, shall 

 not be in any way affected by such suspension. 



II. The Governor in Council, by any order or orders to be made 

 for that purpose, may do anything further, in accordance with the 

 spirit and intention of the Treaty, which shall be found necessary 



