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NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



Br. App. 691. 1766. 



Proclamation by Hugh Palli- 

 ser. King's officers have always 

 had my orders to assist all ves- 

 sels from the Plantations, em- 

 ployed in whale fishery, and pur- 

 suant to His Majesty's orders to 

 me All vessels from Plantations 

 will be admitted to Labrador 

 coast, the ancient customs as to 

 cod fishing under 10 and 11 Wm. 

 Ill c. 25, to be observed. 



Whale fishers under necessary 

 restrictions permitted to land in 

 Labrador to cut up whales, a lib- 

 erty never allowed to them in 

 Newfoundland. 



Prohibits whale fishers from 

 Plantations, from ' banking ' 

 amongst boats of ship adventur- 

 ers from Britain, destroying fish- 

 ing works and firing woods. 



Br. App. 543. 1775. 

 15 George III, c. 31. 



10 and 11 Wm. Ill, cap. 25, was 

 appropriate for that purpose. 



The general prohibition against 

 fishing by any persons except 

 ship fishers from Great Britain 

 was abrogated so far as Ameri- 

 can fishermen were concerned by 

 the Treaty of 1783. 



These were the very regula- 

 tions declared to be without Legal 

 effect by the judgment rendered 

 inJenningsdc Long against Hunt 

 and Beard, appended to this 

 Memorandum (p. 16). 



Order of Governor Pallisscr re- 

 specting depredations committed 

 on the Coast of Labrador and in 

 Newfoundland, dated August 1, 

 1776. 



This order gave notice that 

 " all vessels from the Plantations 

 will be admitted" to the Labra- 

 dor coast " on the same footing as 

 they ever have been admitted in 

 Newfoundland," provided that 

 the ancient customs " established 

 in Newfoundland respecting the 

 Cod Fishery" .under 10 and 11 

 Wm. Ill, cap. 25, were observed. 



The restrictions placed upon 

 whalers were to protect the fish- 

 ing liberties, granted by the Act 

 of 1699 and extended to Labra- 

 dor, from limitation, and to pre- 

 serve unimpaired their full and 

 free enjoyment. 



An Order of this nature was; 

 declared to be without legal effect 

 by the judgment rendered in Jen- 

 nings & Long against Ilunl <f- 

 Beard, appended to this Memo- 

 randum (p. 16). 



" An Act for the 

 of the Fisheries carried on from 

 Great Britain. Ireland, and th-e 

 British dominions in Europe, and 

 for securing the return of the 

 fishermen, sailors, and others em- 

 plmjed in the said fisheries, to the 

 posts there of, at the end of the 

 fishing season, 1775" 



