BRITISH, COLONIAL, AND OTHER CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 337 



No. XL 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 



St. John's, Newfoundland, 12th April, 1904' 



DEAR SIR ROBERT BOND : I enclose herewith, for the information of 

 Ministers, a copy of a telegram which I received at 6 p. m. from the 

 Secretary of State giving the text of the clauses affecting this Colony 

 in the Convention which was signed (in London) on the 8th current, 

 and referring to the notes which have been exchanged between His 

 Majesty's Government and that of the French Republic in connection 

 therewith. 



Believe me to be, yours, sincerely, 



CAVENDISH BOYLE, 

 Governor of Newfoundland. 



[Inclosure.] 



THE TREATY. 

 Despatch from Secretary Lyttelton giving the text of the Treaty. 



[Received p. m. 12th April, 1904.] 



Following is English text of clauses affecting Newfoundland in 

 convention signed on 8th April: 



ARTICLE I. France renounces the privileges established to her ad- 

 vantage by Article XIII. of the Treaty of Utrecht and confirmed or 

 modified by subsequent provisions. 



ARTICLE II. France retains for her citizens on a footing of equal- 

 ity with British subjects the right of fishing in the territorial waters 

 on that portion of the Coast of Newfoundland comprised between 

 Cape St. John and Cape Ray, passing by the North ; this right shall 

 be exercised during the usual fishing season closing for all persons on 

 the 20th of October of each year. The French may therefore fish 

 there for every kind of fish including bait and also shell fish. They 

 may enter any port or harbor on the said coast and may there obtain 

 supplies or bait and shelter on the same conditions as the inhabitants 

 of Newfoundland, but they will remain subject to the local regula- 

 tions in force ; they may also fish at the mouths of the rivers but with- 

 out going beyond a straight line drawn between the tAvo extremities 

 of the banks, where the river enters the sea. They shall not make 

 use of stake nets or fixed engines without permission of the local au- 

 thorities. On the above mentioned portion of the Coast, British sub- 

 jects and French citizens shall be subject alike to the laws and regu- 

 lations now in force, or which may hereafter be passed for the estab- 

 lishment of a close time in regard to any particular kind of fish or 

 for the improvement of the fisheries. Notice of any fresh laws or 

 regulations shall be given to the Government of the French Republic 

 three months before they come into operation. The policing of the 

 fishing on the above mentioned portion of the coast, and for the pre- 

 vention of illicit liquor traffic and smuggling of spirits shall form the 

 subject of regulations drawn up in agreement by the two Gov- 

 ernjnents, 



