2408 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



Ewart, John S., K. C. Continued. 

 Question 1 Continued. 



Statutes cited: Imperial; 1699, free fishing not unlimited, 1371-2; 1775, 

 Sunday fishing, LAHHASCH, 1403; 1786, regulations, nets, desertion of fish- 

 ermen, 1395. 1824, regulations, nets and harbors, bait, ballast, GRAY, 

 1401-2. Lower Canada: 1788, regulations, interference with nets, offal, 

 1395; 1807, regulations, ballast, nets, seines in creeks and harbors, 1395-6. 

 Maine: 1883, regulation under treaty of 1871, 1420. New Brunswick: 1793, 

 regulations, nets in rivers, creeks, etc., 1395; 1818, regulations, offal, 1396. 

 United States: 1887, "retaliatory statute" to offset British regulations, 



1420-1: 



Stevenson, Foreyth to, Feb. 20, 1841, B. C. Ap., 124, treaty right subject to 



local legislation, 1406, exclusion law, LAMMASCH, 1407. 

 Stevenson to Palmerston, Mar. 27, 1841, S. C. Ap., 126, treaty right subject to 



local legislation, 1406. 

 Summary, 1441-2. 



Sunday fishing, Imperial statute, 1775, B. C. Ap., 545, LAMMASCH, 1403. 

 Territorial jurisdiction, not invaded by rights within 3-mile limit, Trescott 



at Halifax commission, B. C. C. Ap., 187, 1411. 

 Thomas, Adams to, Aug. 10, 1822, U. S. C. Ap., S18: Americans discovered 



fisheries, New England defended them, 1375, 1379; partition theory, 1431; 



"right" and "liberty," 1376. 



Thornton, Granville to, Apr. 2, 1881, U. S. C. Ap., 733, joint regulations, 1425. 

 Three-mile limit: Follows sinuosities of coast, Halifax commission, Proceedings, 



1 : 169, 1414-15. Rights within not invasion of territorial jurisdiction, 



Trescott at Halifax commission, B. C. C. Ap., 187, 1411. 

 Treaty advantages to British fishermen, 1422. 

 Treaty can not be modified by legislation, Welsh to Salisbury, Nov. 7, 1878, 



B. C. Ap., 271, 1415-16. 



Treaties cited. See below, Treaty of 1783, Treaty of 1818, Treaty of 1871. 

 Treaty of 1783: Does not relinquish British control over American fisher- 

 men, 1381. "Free fishing" means preexisting colonial rights, 1372. Grant 



not exclusive, 1381-2. Preserves colonial fishing rights: Livingstone to 



Washington, Mar. 12, 1783, B. C. C. Ap., 132, 1382; Madison to Randolph, 



Mar. 12, 1783, B. C. C. Ap., 132, 1383. 

 Treaty of 1818: Does not provide for American consent to regulations, 1386. 



Must be construed same as 1783 treaty, 1410. Restrictions stated in, not 



comprehensive, 1400. 

 Treaty of 1871, B. C. Ap., 41: Articles 26 and 28, right to regulate, 1412. 



Maine regulation under, 1883, B. C. C. Ap., 196, 1420. Must be construed 



same as 1818 treaty, 1410. 

 Treaty right. See Right, treaty. 

 Treaty shore, vain attempt at joint regulation, 1424-5. 

 Treecott, at Halifax commission: American right unlimited, B. C. Ap., 266, 



1368-9. Rights within 3-mile limit not invasion of territorial jurisdiction, 



B. C. C. Ap., 187, 1411. 

 United States position: In 1782, hazardous: Livingstone to the governors, 



Feb. 19, 1782, B. C. C. Ap., 30, 1375; Livingstone to Green, Jan. 31, 



1782, B. C. C. Ap., 30, 1374. Partition theory, DRAOO, LAMMASCH, 



1428-9, FITZPATRICK, 1434. 

 United States, statute 1887, B. C. Ap., 792, "retaliatory statute" to offset 



British regulations, 1420-21. 

 United States, statutes of. See Statutes cited. 

 United States v. Alaska Packers' Aeso., 79 Fed. Rep., 152: "in common," 



1397-8; power of regulation, 1398. 



