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other public use or purpose, under the immediate direction of the 

 British Government. 



5. As the British Government may not possess officers of its own on 

 parts of the coast on which it may be necessary to enforce the preced- 

 ing article, its enforcement shall devolve under such circumstances 

 upon the French Commandant on the station of Newfoundland; 

 and accordingly he and the officers or agents authorized in writing 

 by him, shall be at liberty to abate or remove any building or enclo- 

 sure on the strand assigned to the French, if deemed by such Com- 

 mandant to be obstructive of the exercise of the French rights, in the 

 event of there being no duly empowered British authority established 

 within 5 English miles of such erection. But no erection shall be so 

 abated or removed by French officers or agents until two months after 

 notice in writing has been given to the occupant or occupants, and to 

 the Governor of Newfoundland. 



And if within the period of such notice, or at any time before the 

 intended proceeding shall have been carried into effect, the Governor 

 of Newfoundland shall signify his desire that the question of remov- 

 ing or abating any such erection should be referred to the considera- 

 tion and determination of the respective Governments in Europe the 

 French Commandant shall stay the intended proceeding pending such 

 determination; and if it be authorized by such determination, shall 

 not be competent to carry it into effect except on the expiration of a 

 further notice of one month to the occupant or occupants, and to the 

 Governor of Newfoundland. 



Nor shall any building or enclosure, for the removal of which the 

 French Authorities may have refrained in three successive fishing 

 seasons from taking the steps within their competence, be subject to 

 removal until after equitable compensation, to be arranged between 

 the British and French Governments, has been paid by the latter for 

 the loss which such removal may occasion to the parties interested. 



6. In like manner the officers commanding French vessels of war on 

 the Newfoundland station shall be at liberty to remove British vessels 

 or boats from the waters assigned to the French, as defined by this 

 convention, if fishing in those waters in the event of there being no 

 duly empowered British authority established within five English 

 miles of the place of such act of encroachment. 



7. The season during which the French shall be entitled to exercise 

 their rights of fishery, shall not commence earlier than the 1st day of 

 May, nor end later than the last day of October, in each year. 



8. In consideration of the concessions on the part of Great Britain, 

 involved in the above arrangements, France relinquishes to Great 

 Britain all fishery rights whatever, on the coasts and Islands between 

 Cape Ray and Point Verte, (to the Northward of Bonne Bay;) but 

 the French shall be permitted to fish concurrently with the British, 

 and to cure and dry fish on unoccupied parts of the shore on those 

 coasts and Islands until the close of any fishing season next after the 

 expiration of a year's notice to be given by the Government of Great 

 Britain to the Government of France. 



9. The coasts upon which the French shall retain their fishery 

 rights, shall be recognized to include those of the Islands of Groai's 

 and Belle Isle, on the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, and of all the 

 other Islands smaller than those which are adjacent to the Island of 

 Newfoundland, between Cape St. John and Point Verte. 



