PERTAINING TO THE SITUATION IN 1870. 

 Mr. Fish to Mr. Boutwell. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington, April 23, 1870. 

 Hon. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



SIR: I have the honor to enclose a copy of House of Representa- 

 tives Ex. Doc. No. 239. 2d session, 41st Congress, and of a communi- 

 cation of the 14th instant, from the British Minister, relating to the 

 measures adopted, and proposed to be adopted, by the Authorities 

 of the Dominion of Canada, for the exclusion from certain of the 

 inshore fisheries within the jurisdiction thereof, of foreign fishermen. 

 I beg leave to suggest, that with a view to fully acquainting citizens 

 of the United States interested in the fishing business in waters adja- 

 cent to the Dominion of Canada, these facts that a circular be issued 

 at your earliest convenience to Collectors of the Customs at the 

 ports of the United States in which fishing vessels are fitted out or 

 to which they resort, enclosing to each of them, a sufficient number 

 of copies of a printed notification for distribution among the fisher- 

 men and the business firms interested in the subject, setting forth 

 the material facts presented in the enclosed papers, and putting 

 them on their guard against committing acts which would render 

 them liable to the penalties prescribed by Canadian Laws, respecting 

 inshore fisheries not open to the fishermen of the United States under 

 the 1st Article of the treaty between the United States and Great 

 Britain of 1818. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, 



HAMILTON FISH. 



[Inclosure.] 



(H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 239, 41st Congress, 2d session.) 

 Fisheries in British waters. 



MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN ANSWER TO 

 A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF THE ?TH ULTIMO RELATIVE TO FISH- 

 ERIES IN BRITISH WATERS. 



[April 6, 1870. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to 



be printed.] 



To the House of Representatives: 



In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 

 7th instant, relating to fisheries in British waters, I transmit a report 

 from the Secretary of State and the papers which accompanied it, 

 and I have to state that the commanding officer of the naval steamer 

 ordered to the fishing grounds will be instructed to give his atten- 



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