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according to the number and ability of those persons; but there is 

 no ascertainable limit to the amount of fish that may be taken if 

 those persons can employ others to act for them." Clearly, how- 

 ever, no such interpretation of the language of the treaty is permis- 

 sible, for by its express terms the American liberty of fishing is for 

 the benefit of any of the inhabitants of the United States, and is not 

 restricted to the fishermen, so that any of the persons who are in- 

 habitants of the United States are entitled to employ, or be employed 

 by, any other persons who are inhabitants of the United States in 

 the enjoyment of the fishing liberty under this treaty. 



8 British Case, p. 58. 



