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the oyster fishery shall be reserved exclusively to French subjects; 

 and these lines are as follows, that is to say : 



The 1st line runs from the point A, 3 miles from low water mark, 

 (Point Meinga, bearing South) to the point B, of which the land- 

 marks are Agon Tower, on with the clump of trees upon Mount 

 Huchon; and the summit of Gros Mont in a line with the signal post 

 on Grand Isle. 



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II. The oyster fishery within 3 miles of the Island of Jersey, calcu- 

 lated from low water mark, shall be reserved exclusively to British 

 subjects. 



III. The oyster fishery outside of the limits within which that 

 fishery is exclusively reserved to British and French subjects respec- 

 tively, as stipulated in the preceding Articles, shall be common to the 

 subjects of both countries. 



IV. Between sunset and the ensuing sunrise, the subjects of both 

 countries, respectively, shall be prohibited from dredging for oysters 

 bebveen the coast of Jersey and the coast of France, from Cape 

 Carteret to Point Meinga. 



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VII. The right of shelter in the Islands of Chaussey shall be 

 granted to English fishermen on account of damage, or of evident bad 

 weather. 



VIII. Whenever the fishing-boats of either of the two nations 

 shall be carried within the limits established for the fishery of the 

 other country, by contrary winds, by strong tides, or by any other 

 cause independent of the will of the master and crew; or whenever 

 they shall have passed within those limits in working back to regain 

 their fishing ground, the masters shall be bound immediately to hoist 

 a blue flag of two feet long, and three feet broad, and to keep that flag 

 at the mast-head, so long as they shall remain within the said limits. 



The cruizers of each nation. shall exercise their judgment as to the 

 causes of such trespassings ; and when they shall be satisfied that the 

 said fishing boats have neither dredged nor fished within the limits 

 above-mentioned, the aforesaid cruizers shall not detain either the 

 boats or the crews, nor use any measures of severity towards the latter. 



IX. The subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, shall enjoy the exclu- 

 sive right of fishery within the distance of 3 miles frpm low water 

 mark, along the whole extent of the coasts of the British Islands: and 

 the subjects of the King of the French shall enjoy the exclusive right 

 of fishery within the distance of 3 miles from low water mark, along 

 the whole extent of the coasts of France; it being understood, that 

 upon that part of the coast of France which lies between Cape Car- 

 teret and Point Meinga, French subjects shall enjoy the exclusive 

 right of all kinds of fishery within the limits assigned in Article I. 

 of this Convention, for the French oyster fishery. 



It is equally agreed, that the distance of 3 miles fixed as the general 

 limit for the exclusive right of fishery upon the coasts of the two 

 countries, shall, with respect to bays, the mouths of which do not 

 exceed 10 miles in width, be measured from a straight line drawn 

 from headland to headland. 



X. It is agreed and understood, that the miles mentioned in the 

 present Convention, are geographical miles, whereof 60 make a degree 

 of latitude. 



