2184 NOBTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



Inlands, and of the coasts "as well those of the continent as those 

 of the islands, and the coasts of the Island of Cape Breton." ^lien 

 they came to agree upon an article, they rejected the quite narrow 

 specification of limits within which the Americans might fish, and 



they put in " any of the coasts." 

 1320 THE PRESIDENT: But is the " any " also in the grant, or is it 



only in the renunciation ? I think it is not in the grant. It is 

 only in the renunciation. In the treaty it reads: 



" And also on the coasts, bays, harbors, and creeks, from Mount Joli, 

 on the southern coast of Labrador," 



And, in the first part : 

 " on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland," &c. 



There is no " any." As to the drying and curing 



SENATOR ROOT: In the treaty of 1818? 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK: No, 1783. 



THE PRESIDENT: Ah! In the treaty of 1783, you mean? 



SENATOR ROOT: Yes. 



THE PRESIDENT: Oh! I beg pardon. Well, I do not believe it is 

 there, either. 



SENATOR ROOT: They have a number of forms of this third article 

 of the treaty of 1783. The first one 



THE PRESIDENT : As to the drying and curing, the word " any " is 

 in, but not as to the right of fishing. 



SENATOR ROOT: The first form that they agreed upon for the treaty 

 of 1783 gave general reciprocal fishing rights both to United States 

 and Great Britain on all places where they had been accustomed to 

 fish. The second form contained some limitations, not very great; 

 and the third form was this which I have been reading. That was 

 not agreed to, but instead of agreeing to it, that was made the basis 

 of a modification, and the next form was what came out finally as 

 the treaty. Instead of talking about the shores of the Isle of Sables, 

 and the " shores of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of the 

 Magdalen Islands," and the coasts of the continent, and the coasts 

 of the islands and the coasts of Great Britian, they said : 



" the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested 

 the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank .... and 

 also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to 

 take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland, as 



British fishermen shall use and also on the coasts, bays, and 



creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, 

 and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure 

 fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, 

 Magdalen Islands," &c. 



The distributive idea which is carried in this proposal, by the 

 specification of particular coasts, particular places, is carried in the 



