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shall pass the necessary laws for that purpose, the above enumerated 

 articles, being the produce of the fisheries of the colony of New- 

 foundland, 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 eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth of 

 said treaty, shall remain in force, according to the terms and condi- 

 tions of article thirty-third of said treaty:" 



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

 Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary at Washington have recorded in a protocol of a conference 

 held by them at the Department of State in Washington on the 28th 

 day of May, 1874, in the following language : 



Protocol of a Conference between Great Britain and The United 

 States, relative to the Newfoundland Fisheries. Washington, 

 May 28, 187 J^. 



Whereas it is provided by Article XXXII 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 Washington on 

 the 8th of May, 1871, as follows: 



ART. XXXII. It is further agreed that the provisions and stipu- 

 lations of Articles XVIII to XXV of this Treaty, inclusive, shall 

 extend to the Colony of Newfoundland, 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 provision by law to give it effect, by either of the 

 legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other 

 Articles of this Treaty. 



And whereas an Act was passed by the Governor, Legislative 

 Council, and Assembly of Newfoundland in Legislative Session con- 

 vened in the 37th year of Her Majesty's reign, and assented to by 

 Her Majesty on the 12th day of May, 1874, intituled "An Act to 

 carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Washington so far 

 as they relate to this colony." 



And whereas an Act was passed by the Senate and House of Rep- 

 resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

 and approved on the 1st day of March, 1873, by the President of the 

 United States, 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 of May, 1871, relating to fisheries," 

 by which Act it is provided : 



2. That whenever the Colony of Newfoundland shall give its 

 consent to the application of the stipulations and provisions of the 

 said Articles XVIII to XXV of the said Treaty, inclusive, to that 

 colony, and the Legislature thereof, and the Imperial Parliament 



