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I should be glad to recevie from your Ministers a formal assurance 

 to this effect, as the matter has again been brought to the notice of 

 Her Majesty's Government in a correspondence which has passed be- 

 tween the British and French naval officers on the Newfoundland 

 Station. 



This correspondence also refers to the questions connected with the 

 use of cod-traps and to the establishment of lobster factories on the 

 coast, upon which I addressed you in my despatch of the llth instant. 



I feel assured that your Ministers will recognize the necessity of 

 coming to an early decision in regard to these matters. 

 I have, &c. 



Governor Sir G. Des Vceuas to Sir H. Holland. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 

 Newfoundland, February %1, 1887. 



SIR: I have the honour to forward herewith copies of a Bill en- 

 titled "An Act to regulate the Exportation and Sale of Herring, 

 Capelin, Squid, and other Bait Fishes," which was passed unani- 

 mously by both Houses of the Legislature of this Colony in the first 

 week of the Session. 



2. With the exception of the clause suspending the operation of the 

 measure until its allowance by Her Majesty is made known by 

 Proclamation, this Bill is identical, or almost identical, with that 

 passed in the Session of last year, of which the non-allowance was 

 conveyed to me in your despatch of the 3rd instant. 



3. As this Bill contains the suspensory clause referred to, I have 

 given my assent to it. 



I have, &c. 



(Signed) G. WILLIAM DES VCEUX. 



Sir H. Holland to Administrator Sir F. Carter. 



DOWNING STREET, May $3, 1887. 



SIR: Her Majesty's Government have had under their careful con- 

 sideration your despatch of the 21st February, forwarding copies of 

 a Bill entitled "An Act to regulate the Exportation and Sale of 

 Herring, Capelin, Squid, and other Bait Fishes," which was passed 

 by both Houses of the Legislature on the commencement of the pres- 

 ent Session. 



2. They have also had before them the Address from the House of 

 Assembly on the subject of this Bill, which was duly presented to me 

 by Sir R. Thorburn and Sir A. Shea, who were delegated by the 

 House of Assembly to make representations to Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment on this matter. 



3. In my despatch of the 3rd February I fully explained to you the 

 reasons for which Her Majesty's Government had felt it necessary to 

 refrain from submitting the Bill for Her Majesty's confirmation. I 

 regret to observe, however, that the main reason appears to have been 

 misapprehended by the House of Assembly, though I was careful to 

 make it clear that the special loss which the introduction of new re- 



