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The judge having heard this cause, and the witnesses and evi- 

 dence adduced, and having heard counsel on behalf of the plaintiff 

 and of Edward Morris owner of the above named schooner, her 

 cargo, tackle, rigging, apparel, furniture and stores, pronounced 

 that the said schooner Frederick Gerring, Jr., being a foreign 

 ship or vessel, not navigated according to the laws of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of Canada, but being a 

 ship of the United States of America, owned by foreigners, did on 

 the 25th day of May, 1896, off Gull Ledge, in the Province of Nova 

 Scotia, within three marine miles of the coast of Canada, fish for 

 mackerel and other fish, and was found so fishing, and that the place 

 where the said schooner Frederick Gerring was so fishing and 

 was so found fishing, was in the portion of the Dominion of 

 America, formerly of his late Majesty George the Third, King of 

 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and not lying 

 and included in that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland 

 which extends from Cape Race to the Rameau Islands, nor on the 

 western or northern coast of Newfoundland from said Cape Race 

 to the Quirpon Islands, nor on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, 

 nor on the coast, bays, harbors and creeks, from Mount Joly on 

 the southern coast to Labrador, to and through the Straits of 

 Belle Isle and thence northerly along the coast. 



And that said ship or vessel Frederick Gerring, Jr., was 

 so fishing contrary to the provisions of the convention made be- 

 tween his late Majesty George the Third, King of the United King- 

 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the one part, and the United 

 States of America of the other part, made on the 20th day of 

 October, 1818, and contrary to the provisions of the Acts of the 

 Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, made and passed in the 

 fifty-ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty George the Third, 

 King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being 

 Chapter 58 of the Acts of the said last named Parliament, made 

 and passed in said year. 



And that said ship or vessel Frederick Gerring, Jr., was 

 found so fishing, and to have been fishing in British waters, within 

 three marine miles of the coast of Canada, not included within the 

 limits specified and described in the first article of the convention 

 between his late Majesty King George the Third, and the United 

 States of America, made and signed at London on the 20th day of 

 October, 1818. 



