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the Fishery regulations, I have the honor to inform you that His 

 Lordship has requested me again to bring this matter before the 

 United States Government. 



Although notice has been given by the United States Government 

 of their intention to terminate the fishery Articles of the Treaty of 

 Washington in two years time from the 1st of July last no further 

 communication has been as yet received by Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment relative to the proposed revision of the regulations for the 

 protection of the fisheries in Ne%\d'oundland waters, and Her Maj- 

 esty's Government are anxious that in the interval no cause of differ- 

 ence should arise between the fishermen of Newfoundland and those 

 of the United States who may resort to those waters. 



They would be glad, therefore, to know the views of the Govern- 

 ment of the United States on the proposed revision. At the same 

 time Her Majesty's Government hope that in the interval before 

 the termination of the Fishery Articles in question, the Government 

 of the United States will agree to let the disputed question of Treaty 

 rights remain in abeyance and will unite with Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment in carrying out the revision of the Fishery regulations in the 

 spirit and with the object indicated by Mr. Evarts in his letter to 

 Mr. Welsh of the 1st of August, 1879, in which it is said that 'Hhere 

 ''is no intention on the part of the United States Government that 

 "privileges should be abused and no desire that their full and free 

 "enjo}Tnent should harm the Colonial fishermen. While the differ- 

 " ent interests and methods of the shore fishery and the vessel fishery 

 "make it impossible that the regulation of the one should be entirely 

 "given to the other, yet if the mutual obligations of the Treaty of 

 "1871 are to be maintained, the United States Government would 

 "gladly cooperate with the Government of Her Britannic Majesty 

 "in any effort to make those regulations a matter of reciprocal con- 

 "venience and right, a means of preserving the Fisheries at their 

 "highest point of production and of conciliating a community of 

 "interest by a just proportion of advantages and profits." 



In expressing therefore the hope on the part of Her Majesty's 

 Government that tliis matter may receive the early consideration of 

 the Government of the United States I have the honor to be A\ith 

 the highest consideration, etc.'* 



No further communications on this subject seem to have been 

 exchanged at that time, and the termination of the fisheries articles 

 of the treaty of 1871 on July 1, 1885, less than two years later, made 

 further discussion of American fishing rights under that treaty 

 unnecessary. 



Situation foUowing the termination of the Fisheries Articles of the Treaty 



of 1871. 



After the final termination of the fisheries privileges under the 

 treaty of 1871, which, as above stated, were temporarily extended 

 until January 1, 1886, by the modus vivendi of 1885, a series of special 



"Appendix, p. 751. 



