1806 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



the particular purposes for which the bay may be entered. It is to 

 be entered only for wood and water and in distress; and then come 

 the significant words, " and for no other purpose." 



DR. DE SAVORNIN LOHMAN : May I interrupt you at this moment, 

 Sir William? You said yesterday that it was not allowed to put a 

 word in the treaty that was not in it; and I agree with you. Von 

 will, however, make one exception that, where you have a clause that 

 will not make sense without inserting a word, you may be allowed to 

 insert that word ? 



SIR W. ROBSON : A good deal depends on the word you select for 

 the purpose ; but still 



DR. DE SAVORNIN LOHMAN : I think you will agree with me when I 

 say that when the word is used here that they shall be permitted to 

 " enter " the bay, it was not the intention of the parties to give them 

 permission to enter the bays, and then, when they entered the bays, 

 to say that they could not have wood, water and shelter. The inten- 

 tion was to give them the right to have wood and shelter and water; 

 and therefore they must go on the shores. That was the intention 

 when the words are used here " to enter " the bays. That can have no 

 other signification than to say : " You may enter the bays in order to 

 go on the shores of the bays, to have your wood, and to have your 

 water, and to have your shelter." 



Now I would ask you whether it makes any difference, if you say 



it is allowed to enter the bays, or if you say it is allowed to enter the 



distance of 3 miles of the bays. The intention was not to say : 



1092 " You can enter the bays," but it was to give them the right to 



go on the shores of the bays. And I ask you whether it makes 



any difference if you say it is allowed to go in the bays in order to go 



on shore, or say it is allowed to pass the 3-mile limit of the bays to go 



on shore? 



SIR W. ROBSON : I think there is just this difference, if Dr. Lohinan 

 will allow me, and that brings us very close to the point. It does not 

 say here : " You may enter the 3-mile limit for these purposes." 



DR. DE SAVORNIN LOHMAN : No. 



SIR W. ROBSON : It does not say so, in fact. Let me deal, for a 

 moment, with that. Why does it not say that ? Wood, water and the 

 exigencies of distress, if they could be safely met and properly met 

 on the open coast, they would be. But. in truth, it is not the open 

 coast which is useful, not the mere landing which is useful. It wants 

 something more than that. They are at liberty to land, or at least 

 they might be given liberty to land, and yet it would not satisfy them. 

 It is not the land they want. It is the shelter of the bay. It is not 

 the 3 miles of the coast that they are troubling about; it is the shelter 

 of the bay. They may or may not want to land. I am speaking, now, 



