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plaints have been made for several years past against 

 American fishermen for poaching in those waters. 



To prevent collisions which would otherwise be 

 inevitable^ and to define exactly the rights of France, 

 the two governments have agreed to a treaty, giving 

 to the French the exclusive right to fish and make 

 use of a part of the shore (for the purposes of the 

 fishery) during the season between the 15th of April 

 and the 15th of October. The boundaries are from 

 Cape St. John to Cape Norman on the norths with 

 five ports named in the treaty, and a distance of 

 three miles round the west coasts The French and 

 English have equal rights over all the rest of the 

 west coast, and as for the use of the shore to dr}^ 

 the fish, the former enjoy the sole right on the 

 northern half, and the latter on the southern half. 

 The line of demarcation is at Cape Rock, and the 

 shore-right extends to the third of a mile English, 

 calculated from high-water mark. The right includes 

 the privilege of cutting wood, but forbids the erec- 

 tion of any building which is not absolutely necessary 

 for the fishery. France is also equally entitled to 

 fish for and preserve cod at the north of Belle 

 Isle, and for eighty miles along the coasts of 

 Labrador, between White Sands and Cape Charles, 

 but only on those parts of the coast which are 

 unoccupied. 



The French are, moreover, entitled to purchase 

 bait on the south coast of Newfoundland, on the 



