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Bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other Articles of 

 this Treaty." 



And .Whereas it is expedient to provide for giving effect, as re- 

 gards the Island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, to said 

 Articles, eighteen to twenty-five of said Treaty, inclusive, so far as 

 they are applicable to this Colony. 



Be it tJierefore enacted ~by the Governor, Legislative Council and 

 Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 



I. As soon as the Law required to carry into operation, on the part 

 of the United States of America, the articles set out in the Schedule 

 to this Act, has been passed by the Congress of the United States, and 

 come into force, all Laws of this Colony which operate to prevent the 

 said Articles from taking full effect, shall, so far as they so operate, 

 be suspended and have no effect during the period mentioned in the 

 Article numbered Thirty -three in the Schedule to this Act : Provided 

 that such laws, rules and regulations, relating to the time and manner 

 of prosecuting the Fisheries on the coasts of this Island, shall not be 

 in any way affected by such suspension. 



II. The Governor in Council, by any order or orders to be made 

 for that purpose, may do anything further, in accordance with the 

 spirit and intention of the Treaty, which shall be found necessary to 

 be done on the part of this Island to give full effect to the Treaty ; 

 and any such order shall have the same effect as if the object thereof 

 were expressly provided for by this Act. 



III. This Act shall not come in force until Her Majesty's assent 

 thereto shall have been given, and until the issuing of a Proclamation 

 under provisions of Section Two of the Act of the Imperial Parlia- 

 ment, entitled " The Treaty of Washington Act, One Thousand Eight 

 Hundred and Seventy-two," and shall remain in force during the 

 term of years mentioned in Article Thirty-three in the Schedule to 

 this Act. 



ACT OF MARCH 28, 1874. 



(37 Viet., cap. 2.) 



ACT to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, [] as far 

 as they relate to that Colony. (Fisheries.) 



Whereas a Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of 

 America was signed at Washington on the 8th day of May, 1871, and 

 was duly ratified on the 17th day of June in that year, containing the 

 following Articles, viz. : 



ACT to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, [ a ] as far as 

 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 



[ a On May 5, 1873, an act was passed by the legislature of Newfoundland, 

 entitled "An act relating to the treaty of Washington, 1871 ", which was re- 

 pealed by an act dated April 29, 1874. (See British and Foreign State Papers, 

 Vol. LXIII, page 38, and Vol. LXV, pages 1304-1305.)] 



