APPENDICES TO DEAL AKGUMENTS. 



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Sect. 4. The privilege of dry- 

 ing fish on shore is not and shall 

 not be enjoyed by any of His 

 Majesty's subjects arriving at 

 Newfoundland except from Brit- 

 ish dominions in Europe, 



Sect. 7. Fisher's vessels from 

 Great Britain not to be restricted 

 as to the days of fishing and only 

 to report at custom house on ar- 

 rival and clearance. 



1415 Br. App. 567. 



[A bove Sects, repealed 

 by 5 Geo. IV, c. 51, 1.] 



Between 1783 and 1812. 

 Br. App. 555. 1786. 

 26 George III, c. 26. 

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Section 1 relates to bounties to 

 be paid to fishing vessels from 

 Great Britain engaged in the 

 bank fisheries for a term of eleven 

 years. 



Section 2 grants the liberty of 

 the use of vacant shores of New- 

 foundland to such vessels. 



Section 3 relates to bounties to 

 be paid to whaling vessels from 

 Great Britain. 



Section 4 was in pursuance of 

 the punitive policy towards the 

 rebellious British colonies in 

 America, which were prohibited 

 from the Newfoundland, Labra- 

 dor, and Gulf of St Lawrence 

 fisheries by the Acts of 1775, 15 

 Geo. Ill, cap. 10, and 15 Geo. 

 Ill, cap. 18. 



Section 7 protects the full and 

 free enjoyment of the fishing lib- 

 erty from " any restraint or regu- 

 lation with respect to days or 

 hours of working," and from the 

 interference caused by being com- 

 pelled to make entry at a custom- 

 house. 



This provision relating to re- 

 porting at custom-houses was 

 stated by Lord Elgin in 1906 (U. 

 S. Case App., 987) to be the only 

 regulation in force as to New- 

 foundland in 1818. 



Sections 10 and 11 relate to the 

 free entry of seal-skins into Eng- 

 land taken by the crews of Brit- 

 ish vessels "or by Persons em- 

 ployed by the Masters or Owners 

 of such vessels." 



The remaining sections of the 

 Act relate to the return to Great 

 Britain of fishermen, sailors, and 

 others, to legal proceedings, im- 

 pressment, Greenland fisheries, 

 and bounties to whaling vessels. 



The bounty provisions were ex- 

 tended ten years bv 26 Geo. Ill, 

 cap. 31 (1786). 



"An Act to amend and render 

 more effectual the several laws 

 now in force for encouraging the 

 Fisheries carried on at New- 



