TBEATY OF AUGUST 2, 1839, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND 



FRANCE. 



Convention between Her Britannic Majesty and the King of the 

 French, de-fining and regulating the limits of the exclusive right 

 of the Oyster and other Fishery on the Coasts of Great Britain 

 and France. Signed at Paris, 2nd August, 1839. 



Whereas His late Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the French, 

 appointed, in the year 1837, a mixed Commission, for the purpose of 

 ascertaining and defining the limits within which the subjects of the 

 two countries, respectively, should be at liberty to fish for oysters 

 between the Island of Jersey and the neighbouring coast of France : 



And whereas the Commissioners so appointed have agreed upon 

 certain lines, as marked in a Chart hereinafter referred to, as the 

 limits above-mentioned, and have also agreed upon certain arrange- 

 ments which they conceive to be calculated to prevent the recurrency 

 of disputes, which have at various times arisen between the fishermen 

 of the two countries : 



It has been deemed expedient by Her Majesty the Queen of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and by His Majesty 

 the King of the French, that the limits agreed upon, and the arrange- 

 ments proposed, by the said Commissioners, should be recorded and 

 sanctioned by a Convention to be concluded between their said 

 Majesties : 



And whereas the High Contracting Parties have also considered it 

 desirable to define and regulate the limits within which the general 

 right of fishery on all parts of the coasts of the two countries shall 

 be exclusively reserved to the subjects of Great Britain and of France 

 respectively ; the said High Contracting Parties have therefore named 

 as their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose, that is to say : 



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, the Eight Honourable Granville, Earl Granville, Peer 

 of the Realm, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of 

 the Bath, a Privy Councillor, and Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassa- 

 dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of 

 the French; 



And His Majesty the King of the French, Jean de Dieu Soult, 

 Duke of Dalmatia, Marshal and Peer of France, Grand Cross of His 

 Eoyal Order of the Legion of Honour, &c., &c., c., His Minister and 

 Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs, President 

 of the Council of Ministers; 



^Who, after having communicated to each other their respective 

 Full Powers, found to be in due form, have agreed upon and con- 

 cluded the following Articles: 



ART. I. It is agreed, that the lines drawn between the points desig- 

 nated by the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, on the Chart 

 annexed to the present Convention, and signed by the respective 

 Plenipotentiaries, shall be acknowledged by the High Contracting 

 Parties, as defining the limits between which and tfce French shore, 

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