2052 NOKTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



hinder the drawing of nets, against net interference, or stealing or 

 purloining of nets or fish. All these are reproduced, but the statute 

 wiped out all other provisions and laws applying to fishing. The 

 statute, as you will see by the last article, at the top of page 570, is 

 to be in force only for five years and thence to the end of the next 

 session of Parliament. So that everything that there had been, in 

 so far as it continued in the year 1818, was gathered together in this 

 Act of 1824, and a five-year limit was put upon it. The reason was 

 quite plain. They evidently then had come to the conclusion to give 

 Newfoundland a legislative body of its own, and were making this 

 statute so as to carry it over until there should be a legislature for 

 Newfoundland itself. 



At p. 329 of the United States Counter-Case Appendix, Sir W. V. 

 Whiteway made an explanation in the House of Lords on the 23rd 

 April, 1891, upon this subject. The Tribunal will find that in the 

 last paragraph on p. 329 Sir William Whiteway refers to this Act 

 of 1824, and says that in 1824 an Act entitled "An Act to repeal 

 several laws," &c., contained two sections, 12 and 13, almost literally 

 the same as those above quoted; that is, the sections which I have 

 referred to as being in article 12 of the Act of 1824. Then he goes 

 on, in the first paragraph on p. 330, to tell what happened to this 

 Act, and says: 



"An Act was passed in 1829 to continue the Act 5 George IV chap. 

 51 last referred to, until the 31st of December, 1832 ; " 



1242 That is, this 1824 Act was a five-year Act ; when it was about 

 to expire, Parliament passed another Act to extend it until 

 the 31st December, 1832; and in 1832 the Act of 5 George IV, chapter 

 51, was further extended until 1834, and no longer. 



u In 1832 a legislature was granted to Newfoundland." 



A great year, 1832, for England Legislature to Newfoundland; 



Reform Bill ; new ideas were germinating, and bringing forth fruit 



there. 



I continue reading: 



" Its first assembling taking place in 1833; and Parliament did not 

 in 1834 further continue in force the law enacted in 18^4. leaving 

 to the Legislature of the Colony the task of passing laws and enforc- 

 ing regulations to carry out the treaties and declarations." 



So there we have the end of British legislation regarding New- 

 foundland. And until 1862 there was no Act passed by the Legis- 

 lature of Newfoundland which in any way whatever could be deemed 

 to touch this subject, except that in 1838 they passed a law pro- 

 hibiting ballast being thrown overboard in the harbour. So that 

 during all that period Newfoundland and Labrador were free from 

 regulation or suspicion of regulation. 



