1484 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



still adhere to their illiberal and protective system, which they sustain 

 with unyielding tenacity. 



Whilst the shipping of America, built, manned, and equipped in 

 the United States, can be sold in the British colonial ports without 

 duty, and obtain British registers, American citizens deny any corre- 

 sponding privilege to Your Majesty's subjects. Whilst their vessels par- 

 ticipate with British tonnage in the trade with Britain's colonies, supply, 

 ing their productions and manufactures on the same terms as British, 

 whilst they trade with the British North American colonies in the isl- 

 ands of the Pacific, a British vessel cannot load from New York or Bos- 

 ton for the other States of the republic, or trade from any American 

 port to California or Texas. 



Your Majesty's loyal subjects therefore pray Your Majesty to continue 

 the protection which was extended to them last season, and by force to 

 repel all foreign aggression on their reserved fishing-grounds the exclu- 

 sive enjoyment of which is solemnly renounced to the British by the 

 Convention of 1818, between Your Majesty and the republican govern- 

 ment ; fully believing that the admission of foreigners to participation 

 in that fishery would have a most disastrous effect, can be purchased by 

 no equivalent, and would tend to weaken the confidence of Your Majesty's 

 subjects in the policy of a government which does not protect your peo- 

 ple in the enjoyment of their inalienable rights. 



W. YOUNG, 



Speaker. 



HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, March 30, 1853. 



No. 25. 



TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 

 Tha humble address of the legislative council of Nova Scotia. 



May it please Your Majesty : 



The legislative council of Nova Scotia approach Your Majesty with 

 sentiments of loyalty and attachment to your royal person and govern- 

 ment, and beg to express their grateful sense of the benefit conferred 

 upon the people of this province by the protection afforded to the fish- 

 eries on their coasts during the past year. The legislative council assure 

 Your Majesty that the exclusive right to the enjoyment of these fisheries 

 is esteemed by them a source of great wealth to the province, upon which 

 its commerce largely depends; and they regard preservation of them 

 from the aggression of foreigners as another instance of the deep interest 

 felt by Your Majesty in its welfare. 



Notwithstanding the recognition by treaty on the part of the United 

 States of America of the exclusive right of Your Majesty's subjects to 

 fish on the coast of the North American provinces, the citizens of that 

 country have year after year encroached upon that right; and though 

 the most liberal commercial policy is evinced by Your Majesty toward 

 the republic, all attempts to induce them to abandon their protective 

 system have been resisted, and they not only take fish out of our waters 

 after having solemnly renounced the right to do so, but Your Majesty's 

 subjects are met in the United States by almost prohibitory duties, while 

 large bounties are extended to their own people. 



