4 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



3 No. 2. 1778, February 6: Extract from Treaty of Amity 

 and Commerce between the United States of America and 

 His Most Christian Majesty. 



ARTICLE IX. 



The subjects, inhabitants, merchants, commanders of ships, mas- 

 ters, and mariners of the states, provinces, and dominions of each 

 party respectively shall abstain and forbear to fish in all places pos- 

 sessed or which shall be possessed by the other party; the Most Chris- 

 tian King's subjects shall not fish in the havens, bays, creeks, roads, 

 coasts, or places which the said United States hold or shall hereafter 

 hold; and in like manner the subjects, people, and inhabitants of the 

 said United States shall not fish in the havens, bays, creeks, road?, 

 coasts, or places which the Most Christian King possesses or shall 

 hereafter possess ; and if any ship or vessel shall be found fishing con- 

 trary to the tenor of this treaty, the said ship or vessel, with its lad- 

 ing, proof being made thereof, shall be confiscated. It is, however, 

 understood that the exclusion stipulated in the present article shall 

 take place only so long and so far as the Most Christian King or the 

 United States shall not in this respect have granted an exemption to 

 some other nation. 



ARTICLE X. 



The United States, their citizens and inhabitants, shall never dis- 

 turb the subjects of the Most Christian King in the enjoyment and 

 exercise of the right of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland, nor in 

 the indefinite and exclusive right which belongs to them on that part 

 of the coast of that island which is designed by the treaty of Utrecht ; 

 nor in the rights relative to all and each of the isles which belong to 

 His Most Christian Majesty; the whole conformable to the true sense 

 of the treaties of Utrecht and Paris. 



No. 3. 1909, January 9: Treaty between the United States of Amer- 

 ica and the Republic of Colombia. 



The United States of America and the Republic of Colombia, being 

 equally animated by the desire to remove all obstacles to a good un- 

 derstanding between them and to facilitate the settlement of the 

 questions heretofore pending between Colombia and Panama by ad- 

 justing at the same time the relations of Colombia to the canal which 

 the United States is now constructing across the Isthmus of Panama, 

 have resolved to conclude a Treaty and to that end have appointed as 

 their Plenipotentiaries : 



The President of the United States of America, Elihu Root, Secre- 

 tary of State of the United States ; 



The President of the Republic of Colombia, Sefior Don Enrique 

 Cortes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the 

 Republic of Colombia at Washington; 



Who, after communicating to each other their respective full 

 powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed 

 upon the following articles: 



