230 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



taking, curing, and drying fish on certain coasts of the British 

 North American Colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of 

 the United States shall have, in common with the subjects 

 of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind, 

 except shell-fish, on the sea-coasts and shores, and in the bays, 

 harbors, and creeks of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 Prince P^dward's Island, and of the several islands thereunto 

 adjacent [and, by another article, Newfoundland], without be- 

 ing restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission 

 to land upon the coasts and shores of those Colonies and the 

 islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the 

 purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; })rovidcd 

 that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of pri- 

 vate property, or with British fishermen in the peaceable use 

 of any part of the same coast in their occupancy for the same 

 purpose. ' 



"It is understood that the above-mentioned liberty ap])lies 

 solely to the sea-fishery, and that the salmon and shad fisheries, 

 and all fisheries in rivers and the mouths of rivers, are hereby 

 reserved exclusively for British fishermen." 



Similar provision was made in Article II., witli like 

 exception, for the admission of British subjects to 

 take fish on a part of the sea-coasts and shores of the 

 United States. 



It w^as further a2;reed that Commissioners should 

 be appointed, who shall 



"Examine the coasts of the North American provinces and 

 of the United States embraced within the provisions of the 

 first and second articles of this treaty, and shall designate the 

 places reserved by the said articles from the common right of 

 fishing therein." 



But these provisions were temporary onl}", being 

 subject to be terminated on a year's notice, after the 

 expiration of ten years, and the treaty was in fact 



