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denounced on the l7tli of March, 1865, and expired 

 on the 17th of March, 1866. 



In truth, the United States had purchased the fish- 

 ery provisions of this treaty by other provisions to 

 the effect that certain enumerated articles of the 

 growth and j^roduce of the British Colonies of Cana- 

 da, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's 

 Island, and Newfoundland, or of the United States, 

 should be " admitted into each country respectively 

 free of duty." • 



But the reciprocity here was nearly nominal, the 

 great benefits of the provision inuring to the British 

 Colonies. The fisheries had come to be the incident 

 of a larger question, namely, that of the terms of com- 

 mercial intercourse between the United States and 

 the British Colonies in North America. 



Dissatisfaction in the United States with this state 

 of things led to the denouncement of the treaty, and 

 to the revival of a controversy between the two Gov- 

 ernments regarding the fisheries : which controversy 

 was terminated by the Treaty of Washington. 



PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



By Articles XYIIL, XIX., and XX., the fishery 

 stipulations of the Treaty of September 9, 1854, are 

 in substance revived, with further provision for the 

 appointment of a Commission to settle any outstand- 

 ing question as to the " places " of fishery reserved by 

 either Government. 



It is further agreed that fish -oil and fish of all 

 kinds, exce2:)t fish of the inland lakes and of the riv- 



