AKGUMENT OP CHARLES B. WARREN. 1159 



John Adams, one of the negotiators of the Treaty of Peace of 1783, 

 to the British negotiators at Paris in 1782, when the preliminary 

 articles were signed which finally became the definitive Treaty of 

 Peace of 1783. I read from the Appendix to the British Counter- 

 Case on p. 101, where is found an extract from Mr. Adams' diary 

 under date the 25th November, 1782. 



" I related to them " 



By " them," he means the British negotiators 



" the manner in which the cod and haddock came into the rivers, har- 

 bors, creeks, and up to the very wharves, on all the northern coast of 

 America, in the spring, in the month of April, so that you have 

 nothing to do but step into a boat and bring in a parcel of fish in a 

 few hours ; but that in May they begin to withdraw ; we have a say- 

 ing at Boston, that when the ' blossoms fall, the haddock begin to 

 crawl ' ; that is, to move into deep water, so that in summer you 

 must go out some distance to fish. At Newfoundland it was the 

 same; the fish, in March or April, were in shore in all the creeks, 

 bays, and harbors, that is, within three leagues of the coasts or shores 

 of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia." 



As to the presence of cod in the bays I desire to submit an extract 

 from Sabine's Report on the Fisheries, found at p. 1287 of the second 

 volume of the Appendix to the Case of the United States : 



" I conclude the topic with expressing the conviction to which all 

 practical men will assent that, if the new construction of the con- 

 vention of 1818 be persisted in and actually enforced, we shall lose 

 quite one-third of our cod and mackerel fisheries." 



I also wish to refer to the statement made by the Attorney- 

 General of Nova Scotia in 1844, found in the Appendix to the British 

 Case on p. 139 : 



" In conclusion it is humbly urged upon the consideration of Her 

 Majesty's Government that the Bay of Fundy furnishes very valuable 

 and productive fisheries of herring, mackerel and shad as well as cod 

 and Her Majesty's Government cannot appreciate too highly the 

 importance and value set by the Legislature and people of Nova 

 Scotia upon the exclusion of American fishermen from the fisheries 

 in the Bay of Fundy." 



In support of the fact that there were fish in those bays before the 

 period mentioned by the counsel for Great Britain, I also cite an 

 extract from a report by the Superintendent of Trade and Fisheries 

 at Canso in the Gut of Canso between Cape Breton and Nova 

 Scotia dated the 10th November, 1802. This letter is found in the 

 British Case Appendix, on p. 57, and I will content myself by citing 

 it and asking the Tribunal to read the report. 



In the book, " Fisheries and the Mississippi," by John Quincy 

 Adams, pp. 211-215, there is a letter from a Mr. Lloyd to Mr. Adams 



