TREATY OF NOVEMBER 11, 1867, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND 



FRANCE. 



Convention between Great Britain and France, relative to Fisheries 

 in the Seas between Great Britain and France. 11 Signed in the 

 English and French Languages, at Paris, November 11, 1867. 



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of the French, having 

 charged a Mixed Commission with preparing a revision of the Con- 

 vention of the 2nd of August, 1839, and of the Eegulation of June 

 23, 1843, relative to the fisheries in the seas situated between Great 

 Britain and France; and the members of that Commission having 

 agreed upon certain arrangements which experience has shown 

 would be useful, and which appear to them such as will advantage- 

 ously modify and complete the former arrangements in the common 

 interest of the fishermen of the two countries; their said Majesties 

 have judged it expedient that the arrangements proposed by the 

 said Commission should be sanctioned by a new Convention, and have 

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



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, the Right Honourable Richard Bickerton Pemell, Lord 

 Lyons, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of Her Britannic 

 Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of 

 the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's 

 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the 

 Emperor of the French; 



And His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Leonel, Marquis de 

 Moustier, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of 

 Honour, &c., His Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign 

 Affairs; 



Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, 

 found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the 

 following Articles: 



ART. I. British fishermen 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 the British islands; and French fishermen 

 shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishery within the distance of 3 

 miles from low-water mark along the whole extent of the coast of 

 France; the only exception to this rule being that part of the coast 

 of France which lies between Cape Carteret and Point Meinga. 



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. 



The miles mentioned in the present Convention are geographical 

 miles, whereof 60 make a degree of latitude. 



Ratifications exchanged at Paris, January 14, 1SG8. 



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