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Done at London this twentieth day of October, in the year 

 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 



Albert Gallatin. (L. S.) 



Richard Rush. (L. S.) 



Frederick John Robinson. (L. S.) 



Henry Goulburn. (L. S.) 



EXHIBIT 33. 



British Act of June 14, i8ip. 



(59 Geo. III. Cap. 38.) 



An Act to enable His Majesty to make Regulations with respect 

 to the taking and curing Fish on certain parts of the Coasts 

 of Newfoundland, Labrador, and His Majesty's other Pos- 

 sessions in North America, according to a Convention made 

 between His Majesty and the United States of America. 



Whereas a Convention between His Majesty and the United 

 States of America was made and signed at London, on the 

 Twentieth Day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and 

 Eighteen ; and by the first Article of the said Convention, reciting 

 that differences had arisen respecting the liberty claimed by the 

 United States for the inhabitants thereof to take, dry and cure 

 fish in certain coasts, bays harbours and creeks of His Britannic 

 Majesty's Dominions in America, it is agreed, that the inhabitants 

 of the said L'nited States shall have forever, in common with the 

 subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every 

 kind on that part of the Southern Coast of Newfoundland which 

 extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the Western 

 and Northern Coasts of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray 

 to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, 

 and also on the coasts, bays, harbours and creeks from Mount 

 Joly on the Southern Coasts of Labrador, to and through the 

 Straits of Belle Isle, and thence northwardly indefinitely along the 

 coast without prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive rights 



