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have [been] unjustly vexed or harassed in the enjoyment of such 

 rights, or subjected to unreasonable restrictions, regulations, or re- 

 quirements in respect of such rights; or otherwise unjustly vexed or 

 harassed in said waters, ports or places; or whenever the President of 

 the United States shall be satisfied that any such fishing vessels or 

 fishermen, having a permit under the laws of the United States to 

 touch and trade at any port or ports, place or places in the British 

 dominions of North America, are or then lately have been denied the 

 privilege of entering such port or ports, place or places in the same 

 manner and under the same regulations as may exist therein applica- 

 ble to trading vessels of the most favoured nation, or shall be unjustly 

 vexed or harassed in respect thereof, or otherwise be unjustly vexed 



or harassed therejn, or shall be prevented from purchasing 

 793 such supplies as may there be lawfully sold to trading vessels 



of the most favoured nation; or whenever the President of 

 the United States shall be satisfied that any other vessels of the 

 United States, their masters or crews, so arriving at or being in such 

 British waters or ports or places of the British dominions of North 

 America, are or then lately have been denied any of the privileges 

 therein accorded to the vessels, their masters or crews, of the most 

 favoured nation, or unjustly vexed or harassed in respect of the same, 

 or unjustly vexed or harassed therein by the authorities thereof, 

 then, and in either or all of such cases, it shall be lawful, and it 

 shall be the duty of the President of the United States, in his discre- 

 tion, by proclamation to that effect, to deny vessels, their masters 

 and crews, of the British dominions of North America, any entrance 

 into the waters, ports, or places of, or within the United States 

 (with such exceptions in regard to vessels in distress, stress of 

 weather, or needing supplies as to the President shall seem proper) , 

 whether said vessels shall have come directly from said dominions on 

 such destined voyage or by way of some port or place in such destined 

 voyage elsewhere; and also, to deny entry into any port or place 

 of the United States of fresh fish or salt fish or any other product 

 of said dominions, or other goods coming from said dominions to 

 the United States. The President may, in his discretion, apply 

 such proclamation to any part or to all of the foregoing-named 

 subjects, and may revoke, qualify, limit, and renew such proclama- 

 tion from time to time as he may deem necessary to the full and just 

 execution of the purposes of this Act. Every violation of any 

 such proclamation, or any part thereof, is hereby declared illegal, 

 and all vessels and goods so coming or being within the waters, 

 ports, or places of the United States contrary to such proclamation 

 shall be forfeited to the United States; and such forfeiture shall 

 be enforced and proceeded upon in the same manner and with the 

 same effect as in the case of vessels or goods whose importation or 

 coming to or being in the waters or ports of the United States con- 

 trary to law may now be enforced and proceeded upon. Every 

 person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act, or such 

 proclamation of the President made in pursuance hereof, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof, shall 

 be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by 

 imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or by both said 

 punishments, in the discretion of the court. 

 Approved, March 3, 1887. 



