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2. Fishery at Belle Isle without con- Aa to the 2nd point, see our conclud- 

 fining the French to hook and line ing remarks. 



fishing. 



3. Cape St. Gregory to be the French As to the 3rd, considering that the 

 boundary instead of Point Verte; thus Reports from the Colony have almost 

 leaving Bonne Bay as a Harbor of invariably represented Bonne Bay as a 

 Refuge to the French. part of the Coast on which it is an 



object to get rid of the French rights, 

 we think it would not be advisable to 

 leave it out. 

 APBIL 23, 1853. 



[Inclosure 3 In Letter to Sir A. Perrier, dated 4th June, 1853.] 



Draft Project. 



Her Majesty's Government being unable to accede to the proposals 

 of Monsieur de Bon, for the reasons stated, but being as desirous as 

 the Government of France to preclude by every possible means the 

 disputes between the two Governments, to which the existing Treaty 

 stipulations on the subject of the Newfoundland fisheries have been 

 shown by experience to tend, more particularly in consequence of the 

 ambiguity of some of the leading provisions, and being of opinion 

 that the ambiguous rights admit of a compromise not interfering 

 with the main advantages at present realized by the respective parties, 

 empower Sir A. Perrier to make the following propositions : 



1. British subjects shall not fish during the season hereafter speci- 

 fied within Marine miles of the coast of Newfoundland, or 



the coasts of the adjacent Islands, on which French subjects shall 

 continue to enjoy (or shall acquire ) the right of fishery under this 

 convention ; or as regards such of those coasts as are separated from 

 British coasts, not so assigned to the French by a Channel not ex- 

 ceeding Marine miles in width, not nearer than the middle of 



such Channel. 



2. The right of fishery shall, in no case, be enjoyed by the French 

 in any Creek, River or Stream above the flow of the tide, and shall 

 be limited to the salt water only. The French shall not make use of 

 any mode of fishing in or at the entrance of any Creek, River, or 

 Stream, which would be illegal in France. 



3. The operations in connection with the fishery, which the French 

 shall have a right to conduct on shore, shall be limited to a strand 

 bordering upon the waters in which the French shall have a right to 

 fish as above defined, and extending inland a quarter of (or half) an 

 English mile from high water mark. The French, however, shall 

 be allowed to cut wood for the purposes contemplated in the British 

 Declaration, attached to the Treaty of 1783, upon unoccupied land 

 at such further distance inland from the strand as may not be incon- 

 venient to the British Government. 



4. No erection obstructive of the exercise of the French rights of 

 fishery, whether a fishing establishment or a building or enclosure of 

 any kind, shall be allowed on the strand assigned to the French ; save 

 works or erections made or occupied for the purposes of defence, or 



These words to be used if a Fishery at Belle Isle be conceded to the French. 



