62 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PBOCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



PROCLAMATIONS. 



PROCLAMATION OF JULY 1, 1873, RELATIVE TO THE TREATY OE 



MAY 8, 1871. 



BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

 A PROCLAMATION. 



Whereas by the Thirty-third Article of a Treaty concluded at 

 Washington on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States 

 and Her Britannic Majesty, it was provided that "Articles XVIII to 

 XXV inclusive, and Article XXX of this Treaty shall take effect as 

 soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been 

 passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parlia- 

 ment of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island 

 on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the 

 other;" 



And whereas by the first section of an Act entitled "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," it is provided " that whenever the President of the United 

 States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parlia- 

 ment 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 contained in 

 Articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and Article thirtieth 

 of said Treaty, he is hereby authorized to issue his Proclamation 

 declaring that he has such evidence." 



And whereas the Secretary of State of the United States and Her 

 Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary at Washington have recorded in a Protocol a conference held 

 by them at the Department of State in Washington, on the 7th day of 

 June, 1873, in the following language: 



Protocol of a conference held at Washington, June 7, 1873, setting 

 the time at which articles 18 to 25, and article 30 of the treaty of 

 May 8, 1871, should go into effect, with respect to Prince Edwards 

 Island. 



Whereas it is provi'ded by Article XXXIII of the treaty between 

 Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and the United States of America, signed at Washing- 

 ton on the 8th of May, 1871, as follows : 



"ARTICLE XXXIII. 



"The foregoing articles, XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article 

 XXX of this Treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws required to 

 carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial 

 Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by 



