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the shores of Newfoundland, but which will leave a concurrent right 

 of fishery, the regulating and policing of which will be in the manner 

 provided in the North Sea Fishery Convention of 1881, Articles 14 

 to 38, and in the Convention of 1887 (also North Sea Fishery.) The 

 Imperial Government to compensate the owners of all existing 

 French establishments on the Treaty Shores of the Island; and that 

 His Majesty's Government presumed that they may state that the 

 Newfoundland Government will approve of this, and will undertake 

 to pass the necessary permanent legislation to provide for the carry- 

 ing out, policing and regulating, on the lines above suggested, the 

 joint fishery; also cablegrams received from the Secretary of State in 

 answer to queries transmitted at the instance of the Premier under 

 date 18th and 24th instants, more fully explaining the above pro- 

 posal; it was resolved unanimously that, (1) provided it be under- 

 stood that no new fishery rights are conceded to France; (2) that the 

 rights under the new arrangement shall not extend beyond the 20th 

 of October; (3) that His Majesty's Government can obtain from 

 France a complete abandonment of the rights of landing and drying 

 fish on the Treaty Coast and Islands adjacent thereto; (4) that this 

 shall free the Colony forever from all those restrictions and limita- 

 tions that have retarded the settlement of that Coast, the prosecution 

 by British subjects of the Fisheries along the whole of that Coast, as 

 well as the development and shipment of its minerals and other re- 

 sources, this Government will undertake to obtain necessary, perma- 

 nent legislation for policing and regulating the fisheries on that 

 Coast on the lines laid down in Imperial Statute, Chap. 22 of 46 and 

 47 Victoria and 56 and 57 Victoria, Chap. 17. Details of proposed 

 legislation to be referred to His Majesty's Government. 



CAVENDISH BOYLE, 

 Governor of Newfoundland. 



No. VII. 



Despatch from Secretary Lyttelton suggesting a proposal for 

 policing the coast and stamping out smuggling. 



[Received 30th March, 1904.] 



Instead of the reference to Articles 14 to 38 of the North Sea 

 Fishery Convention, and to the Convention of 1887 respecting the 

 North Sea Liquor traffic, to which I referred in my Secret telegram 

 of the 14th of January (No. 1.) it is proposed to substitute the fol- 

 lowing Article in the proposed Convention with France. 



"The Policing of the Fisheries, as well as that of illicit traffic 

 in liquor and of contraband spirits, will be the subject of a regu- 

 lation to be agreed upon between the two Governments." 



I trust that your Ministers will concur in this proposal.- They 

 will have an opportunity of expressing their views on any proposed 

 regulations which may be framed under this Article. Telegraph 

 reply at the earliest possible moment as the matter is of extreme 

 urgency. 



ALFRED LYTTELTON, 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies. 



