1580 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES .ARBITRATION. 



British vessels) have been given by the United States corresponding 

 privileges. I read, from the bottom of p. 570: 



"And His Majesty doth further, by the advice aforesaid, and in 

 pursuance of the powers aforesaid, "declare that the ships of and 

 belonging to the said United States of America, may import from the 

 United States aforesaid, into the British possessions abroad, goods 

 the produce of those States, and may export goods from the British 

 possessions abroad to be carried to any foreign country whatever." 



To go back on the other page for a moment, to the second para- 

 graph of the order: 



" And whereas by a certain order of His said late Majesty in 

 council, bearing date the 27th day of July, 1826, after reciting, that 

 the conditions mentioned and referred to in the said Act of Parlia- 

 ment, had not in all respects been fulfilled by the Government of the 

 United States of America, and that, therefore, the privileges so 

 granted as aforesaid by the law of navigation to foreign ships, could 

 not lawfully be exercised or enjoyed by the ships of the United States 

 aforesaid, unless His Majesty, by his order in council, should grant 

 the whole or any of such privileges to the ships of the United States 

 aforesaid : His said late Majesty did. in pursuance of the powers in 

 him vested by the said Act, grant the privileges aforesaid to the 

 ships of the said United States; but did thereby provide and declare, 

 that such privileges should absolutely cease and determine in His 

 Majesty's possessions in the West Indies and South America, and in 

 certain other of His Majesty's possessions abroad, upon and from 

 certain days in the said order for that purpose appointed, and which 

 are long since passed : " 



And then it goes on to recite another order with regard to all 

 vessels of the United States. Now, it was in that way that the 

 United States got its entrance into colonial waters in the North 

 Atlantic. 



The United States granted the same rights by the Act of Congress 

 of the 29th May. 1830, which is to be found on p. 786 of the Appendix 

 to the British Case, authorizing the President to issue a proclamation 

 when he was satisfied that Great Britain had given to the United 

 States corresponding rights. 



The President's proclamation begins on the same page, the 5th 

 October. 1830, and recites the Act of Congress to the effect that 

 when he 



" shall receive satisfactory evidence that the Government of Great 

 Britain will open the ports in its colonial possessions in the West 

 Indies, on the continent of South America, the Bahama Islands, the 

 Caicos and the Bermuda or Somer Islands, to the vessels of the 

 United States, for an indefinite or for a limited term; that the ves- 

 sels of the United States, and their cargoes, on entering the colonial 

 ports aforesaid," 



And he recites in the next paragraph : 



"And whereas, by the said Act, it is further provided, that, when- 

 ever the ports of the United States shall have been opened under the 



