2188 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



noscitur a sociis, you can say it here. The bays here are the bays 

 that associate with havens, creeks, roads, shoals, and places. The 

 word " places " is quite general, of course, but all the other things 

 are things quite close to the shore ; so that if there is any inference 

 from those treaties, it is an inference that is quite favourable to the 

 United States. 



I shall not take the time to go into an examination of the local 

 statutes in regard to the bays of Chaleur and Miramichi further than 

 to say that the statute about Chaleur applied only to the beaches, 

 the shores, and did not relate to the general surface of the bay. 

 Chaleur lies between the old province of Lower Canada and New 

 Brunswick, and the line of Lower Canada ran along the north shore 

 of the Bay of Chaleur, while New Brunswick was bounded by the 

 bay on the north. These statutes were statutes which related to the 

 use of the north shore of the bay in Lower Canada, and her juris- 

 diction was bounded, not by the bay, but by the north shore; and an 

 examination of the statutes will show that they had no relation to 

 the general body of water at all. Perhaps they may have had a rela- 

 tion to the water in connection with the shore, but nothing which 

 could run out anywhere in the neighborhood of the 3-mile line. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK: Is that the statute that provides for 

 the boundary between Old Canada and New Brunswick ? 



SENATOR ROOT : That is a different statute. I stated what I under- 

 stood to be the fact, and which I believe would be found in that 

 statute to which you referred, Sir Charles, but the statute I am now 

 referring to was one in 1785, to be found in the British Appendix 

 at p. 554. 



SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK: That is the old statute that provides 

 for fishery regulations made by the coroner or the Justice of the 

 Peace. 



SENATOR ROOT: That is another one, that I referred to the other 

 day. Then, there is another statute of 1788, to be found in the 

 British Appendix at p. 592. 



JUDGE GRAY: Where in the British Appendix is the first, the 

 statute of 1785? 



SENATOR ROOT: The statute of 1785 is in the British Appendix 

 at p. 554 ; the statute of 1788 is in the British Appendix at p. 592. 



Along down in 1887, during the discussion of the Bayard-Chamber- 

 lain treaty. Lord Salisbury makes a note, upon one of the 

 1323 American projets, with regard to Chaleur, in which he refers 

 to a subsequent statute as amounting to a claim to have terri- 

 torial jurisdiction over it. That was a statute passed in 1851, which 

 is not in the Appendix, and does not appear except that Lord Salis- 

 bury refers to it. 



