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6. Notifications of the Royal Assent to the Act alluded to, and 

 Order in Council, were published in the Royal Gazette of this Island 

 on the 8th October, 1844; but I am ignorant whether the United 

 States Government are aware of its provisions, and it will be for 

 your Lordship to determine if any intimation should be made to that 

 Government on this important subject. 



I trust from what I have already stated, that Her Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment will perceive the peculiar position in which the Colony is 

 placed, in regard to the Fisheries, so very different from the adjoin- 

 ing Provinces. I apprehend that the Lieutenant Governor, irrespec- 

 tive of any other interest, is entitled to carry that law into effect, 

 applicable to this Island, which received the sanction of the Sover- 

 eign; and that the Legislature may modify, relax or abrogate such 

 law, on conditions, subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment. The importance of the subject will, I trust, be my excuse for 

 troubling your Lordship at such length, while, 



I have the honor to remain, 



Your Lordship's obdt. Servt., A. BANNERMAN. 



Rt. Hon. the EARL GREY. 



Extracts from the Journal of the Legislative Assembly of Newfound- 

 land, 1857. 



Message from His Excellency the Governor, transmitting to the 

 House of Assembly, copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, of the 16th January, 1857, enclosing tran- 

 script of a Convention between Her Majesty and the Emperor of 

 the French; and other Documents relative to the Fisheries on the 

 Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. 



C. H. DARLING, Governor: 



The Governor transmits to the Hon. the House of Assembly the 

 copy of a Despatch from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies, enclosing the copy of a " Convention between Her 

 Majesty and the Emperor of the French, relative to Rights of Fish- 

 ery on the Coast of Newfoundland, and the neighboring Coasts," 

 signed at London, on the 14th January last, together with a copy of 

 the Correspondence referred to in that Despatch. 



The Assembly will perceive that by the 20th Article of the Con- 

 vention it is provided, that that Instrument shall come into opera- 

 tion as soon as the Laws required to carry it into effect shall have 

 been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, and by the 

 Legislature of Newfoundland, and that Her Majesty has engaged 

 to use her best endeavours to procure the passing of such Laws, in 

 sufficient time to enable Her to bring the Convention into operation 

 on or before the 1st January, 1858. 



The Assembly will learn from the Secretary of State's Despatch, 

 that in making this engagement, Her Majesty's Government desire to 

 express their strong anxiety to effect the arrangement for which the 

 Convention provides, and their conviction that to miss the present 

 opportunity of bringing to a settlement the long agitated questions to 



