64 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PROCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States 

 of America, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby declare that I 

 have received 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 said Treaty as contained in Articles 

 Eighteenth to Twenty-fifth, inclusive, and Article Thirtieth of said 



Treaty. 



In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the 

 seal of the United States to be affixed. 



Done at the city of Washington, this first day of July, in the year 

 of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and of 

 the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-seventh. 



[SEAL.] U. S. GRANT. 



By the President 

 HAMILTON FISH, 



Secretary of State. 



PROCLAMATION OF MAY 29, 1874, RELATIVE TO THE TREATY OF 



MAY 8, 1871. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF 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 

 Parliament 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 it is provided by Article XXXII of the treaty afore- 

 said " that the provisions and stipulations of Articles XVIII to 

 XXV of this treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the colony of New- 

 foundland, so far as they are applicable. But if the Imperial 

 Parliament, the Legislature of Newfoundland, or the Congress of 

 the United States, shall not embrace the colony of Newfoundland 

 in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, 

 then this article shall be of no effect; but the omission to make pro- 

 vision by law to give it effect, by either of the legislative bodies afore- 

 said, shall not in any way impair any other articles of this treaty ;" 



And whereas by the second 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 8th 

 day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fish- 

 eries," it is provided : 



"That whenever the colony of Newfoundland shall give its con- 

 sent 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 



