60 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



from and after the date of a proclamation by the President of the 

 United States, declaring that he has satisfactory evidence that the 

 said Province has consented, in a due and proper manner, to have 

 the provisions of the treaty extended to it, and to allow the United 

 States the full benefits of all the stipulations therein contained. 

 Approved, August 5, 1854. 



ACT OF MARCH 1, 1873. 



(17 Stat. L., c. 213.) 



An Act to carry into Effect the Provisions of the Treaty between the United 

 States and Great Britain signed in the City of Washington the eighth day of 

 May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the Fisheries. 



Be it enacted ~by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever the 

 President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that 

 the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the Parliament of Canada, 

 and the legislature of Prince Edward's Island have passed laws on 

 their part to give full effect to the provisions of the treaty between 

 the United States and Great Britain signed at the city of Washington 

 on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as con- 

 tained in articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article 

 thirtieth, of said treaty, he is hereby authorized to issue his procla- 

 mation declaring that he has such evidence, and thereupon, from the 

 date of such proclamation, and so long as the said articles eighteenth 

 to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth of said treaty shall 

 remain in force, according to the terms and conditions of article 

 thirty-third of said treaty, all fish-oil and fish of all kinds, (except 

 fish of the inland lakes and of the rivers falling into them, and except 

 fish preserved in oil,) being the produce of the fisheries of the Do- 

 minion of Canada or of Prince Edward's Island, shall be admitted 

 into the United States free of duty. 



SECTION 2. That whenever the colony of Newfoundland shall give 

 its consent to the application of the stipulations and provisions of the 

 said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth of said treaty, inclusive, to that 

 colony, and the legislature thereof, and the Imperial Parliament shall 

 pass the necessary laws for that purpose, the above enumerated ar- 

 ticles, being the produce of the fisheries of the colony of Newfound- 

 land, shall be admitted into the United States free of duty, from and 

 after the date of a proclamation by the President of the United 

 States, declaring that he has satisfactory evidence that the said 

 colony of Newfoundland has consented, in a due and proper manner, 

 to have the provisions of the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, 

 inclusive, of the said treaty extended to it, and to allow the United 

 States the full benefits of all the stipulations therein contained, and 

 shall be so admitted free of duty, so long as the said articles eight- 

 eenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth, of said treaty, 

 shall remain in force, according to the terms and conditions of article 

 thirty-third of said treaty. 



