644 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Majesty's naval officers or of those of the Canadian government is 

 concerned, there is no cause for anxiety to citizens of the United 

 States engaged in the fisheries in the neighborhood of the British 

 provinces, so long as they may respect the laws upon the subject now 

 in force. The tenor of the instructions issued to those officers both 

 by Her Majesty's government and by that of the Dominion are of 

 the most liberal nature, and though they continue to hold the opinion 

 that under the treaty of 1818 United States fishermen are prohibited 

 from frequenting colonial ports and harbors for any other purposes 

 but for shelter, repairing damages, purchasing wood, and obtaining 

 water, such prohibition will not be enforced during the present season, 

 and they will be allowed to enter Canadian ports for the purposes of 

 trade, and of transshipping fish and procuring supplies, nor will they 

 be prevented from fishing outside of the three-mile limit in bays the 

 mouth of which is more than six miles wide. 



It is to be hoped, however, that citizens of the United States will, 

 on their part, contribute to the prevention of untimely collisions, by 

 refraining from encroaching, for the purpose of fishing, upon those 

 waters from which, by the treaty of 1818 and by the laws of Groat 

 Britain and Canada, they are excluded, until the legislation for 

 insuring to them the privileges and immunities agreed upon by the 

 treaty of the 8th ultimo shall have been carried out. 

 I have the honor, &c. 



EDW. THORNTON. 



Mr. Pakcnliam to Mr. Davis. 



WASHINGTON, July %6, 1871. 



(Received July 27.) 



SIR: I have the honor to inform you that intelligence has reached 

 me from the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island, to the 

 effect that the government yesterday decided not to enforce the fishery 

 laws during the present season, and pending the consideration of the 

 treaty by the legislature of that portion of Her Majesty's dominions. 

 I have the honor, &c, 



F. J. PAKENIIAM. 



Mr. Davis to Mr. Pakcnliam. 



DEPARTMENT or STATE, 



Washington, August 9, 1871. 



MY DEAR MR. PAKENHAM : Dennis C. Murphy, master of the Lizzie 

 A. Tarr, of Gloucester, has stated, under oath, facts in regard to the 

 action of Her Majesty's naval officers toward him on the Newfound- 

 land coast which lead me to apprehend that they are not acting in 

 accordance with wishes and instructions of Her Majesty's govern- 

 ment, so far as we are able to judge of those wishes and instructions 

 from the correspondence which has taken place since the conclusion 

 of the treaty of Washington. 



