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ploy a secretary, and any other necessary oflBcer or officers, to assist them in 

 the transaction of the business which may come before them. 



Each Government shall pay its own Commissioner and agent or counsel. 

 All other expenses shall be defrayed bj^ the two Governments in equal moieties. 



The whole expenses of the Commission, including contingent expenses, shall 

 be defrayed by a ratable deduction on the amount of the sums awarded by the 

 Commissioners, provided always that such deduction shall not exceed the rate 

 of five per cent, on the sums so awarded. 



Article XVII. 



The High Contracting Parties engage to consider the result of the proceed- 

 ings of this Commission as a full, perfect, and final settlement of all such claims ij 

 as are mentioned in Article XII. of this Treaty upon either Government ; and ' 

 further engage that every such claim, whether or not the same may have been 

 presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said Commission, 

 shall, from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the said Commission, 

 be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmis- 

 sible. 



Article XVIII. 



It is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that, in addition to the liberty 

 secured to the United States fishermen by the Convention between the United 

 States and Great Britain, signed at London on the 20th day of October, 1818, 

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

 ican Colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, 

 in common with the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty, for the term 

 of years mentioned in Article XXXIII. of this Treaty, to take fish of every 

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

 and creeks, of the Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and 

 the Colony of Prince Edward's Island, and of the several islands thereunto ad- 

 jacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission 

 to land upon the said coasts and shores and islands, and also upon the Magda- 

 len Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided 

 that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property^ or 

 with British fishermen in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in 

 their occupancy for the same purpose. 



It is understood that the above-mentioned liberty applies solely to the sea 

 fishery, and that the salmon and shad fisheries, and all other fisheries in rivers 

 and the mouths of rivers, are hereby reserved exclusively for British fishermen. 



Article XIX. 

 It is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that British subjects shall have, 

 in common with the citizens of the United States, the libevty, for the term of 



