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to be done on the part of this Island to give full effect to the Treaty; 

 :iml any such order shall have the same effect as if the object thereof 

 were expressly provided for by this Act. 



I II. This Act shall not come in force until Her Majesty's assent 

 shall have been given, and until the issuing of a Proclamation under 

 provisions of Section Two of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, en- 

 titled "The Treaty of Washington Act, One Thousand Eight Hun- 

 dred and Seventy-two.'" and shall remain in force during the term of 

 years mentioned in Article Thirty-three in the Schedule to this Act. 



SCHEDULE. 



Articles of the Treaty of Washington of the Eighth of May, One 

 Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-one, which are referred to 

 in the foregoing Act. 



[Then follow Articles 18 to 25 inclusive and Article 33.] 



No. 118. 1874, March 28: Newfoundland Statute, 37 Viet., Cap. 2. 



An Act to carry into effect the Provisions of the Treaty of Washington, as far as 

 they relate to this Colony. 



\Passed March 28, 1874.'] 



Section. 



1. Power to Governor to declare 



Articles of Treaty in force. 



2. Governor may make orders, &c. 



Section. 



3. Suspending Clause, and duration 

 of Act. 



Whereas a Treaty between Great Britain 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, containing the following Ar- 

 ticles, viz. : 



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 Newfound- 

 land, so far as they are applicable; but if the Imperial Parliament, the Legisla- 

 ture 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 f*o 

 make provision by law to give it effect by either of the Legislative bodies afore- 

 said, shall not in any way impair any other Articles of this Treaty. 



Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Legislative Council and 

 Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows:- 



1st The Governor may, at any time hereafter, by his Proclama- 

 tion, to be published in the Royal Gazette of this Colony, declare that 

 after a time to be therein named, the provisions and stipulations of 

 the said Articles eighteen to twenty-five of the said Treaty inclusive, 

 as set forth in the Schedule to the Act, shall extend to this 

 707 Colony of Newfoundland so far as they are applicable; and 

 after the time so named in such Proclamation, the provisions 



