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The Committee concurring in the foregoing Report, and consider- 

 ing the great value of the Canadian fishing-grounds, and the necessity 

 which exists for their protection from encroachments by foreign fish- 

 ermen, in order that these natural resources may be made available to 

 our own people, recommends that the attention of Her Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment be drawn to this subject, and that representations be made 

 as to the necessity for having the Royal Assent given at as early a day 

 as possible to the Act of the last Session, which is before referred to. 



All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency's approval. 



(Signed) JOHN J. MC(JEE, 



Clerk, Privy Council. 



Section 17 of Bill No. 85, passed ~by the United States' Congress, 1886, 

 referred to in the foregoing. 



That, whenever any foreign country whose vessels have been placed 

 on the same footing in the ports of the United States as American 

 vessels [the coastwise trade excepted] shall deny to any vessel of the 

 United States any of the commercial privileges accorded to national 

 vessels in the harbours, ports, or waters of such foreign country, the 

 President, on receiving satisfactory information of the continuance 

 of such discriminations against any vessels of the United States, is 

 hereby authorized to issue his Proclamation excluding on and after 

 such time as he may indicate from the exercise of such commercial privi- 

 leges in the ports of the United States as are denied to American 

 vessels in the ports of such foreign country all vessels of such foreign 

 country of a similar character to the vessels of the United States thus 

 discriminated against, and suspending such concessions previously 

 granted to the vessels of such country; and on and after the date 

 named in such Proclamation for it to take effect if the master, officer, 

 or agent of any vessel of such foreign country, excluded by said Proc- 

 lamation from the exercise of any commercial privileges, shall do 

 any act prohibited by said Proclamation in the ports, harbours, or 

 waters of the United States for or on account of such vessel, such 

 vessel and its rigging, tackle, furniture, and boats, and all the goods 

 on board, shall be liable to seizure and to forfeiture to the United 

 States, and any person opposing any officer of the United States 

 in the enforcement of this Act, or aiding and abetting any other 

 person in such opposition, shall forfeit 800 dollars, and shall be guilty 

 of a misdemeanour, and, upon conviction, shall be liable to imprison- 

 ment for a term not exceeding two years. 



No. 16. 1886, November 26: Letter, the Earl of Iddesleigh to Sir 

 L. S. Sackville West. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, November 26, 1886. 



SIR: With reference to my despatch of the 4th September last, I 

 transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Colonial 

 Office, inclosing a copy of a despatch, with its inclosures," from the 



This despatch and its enclosures are printed in the appendix to the United 

 States Case, at pages 879-883. 



