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to you, for communication to your government, the views of Her 

 Majesty's Government on the question. 



I have, &c., 

 In the absence of Lord Salisbury : 



JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 



Mr. Hop pin to Mr. Evarts. 



LEGATION or THE UNITED STATES, 

 London (Saturday, 5 p. m.), February 14, 1880. 

 DEAR MR. EVARTS : My attention has just been called to the passage 

 in yesterday's Times, which I have marked with red pencil, in which 

 a question is asked of the under foreign secretary about the Fortune 

 Bay claims. 



I have no time to inclose this in a regular dispatch. 

 Very respectfully, &c., 



W. J. HOPPIN. 



[Inclosure.] 

 [The Times, Friday, February 13, 1880.] 



HOUSE or COMMONS, Thursday, February 12. 



CANADIAN AND NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES. 



Mr. Gourley asked whether the claim of the United States Govern- 

 ment for $103,000 for damages alleged to have been done by New- 

 foundland fishermen in Fortune Bay to the Massachusetts fishing 

 fleet had been amicably arranged ; what measures were being adopted 

 for the purpose of abrogating or amending clause 33 of the Treaty 

 of Washington relative to the Canadian and Newfoundland inshore 

 fisheries ; and whether steps were being taken for the purpose of ascer- 

 taining if the proviso of the convention of 1818, which admits Ameri- 

 can fishermen to enter British North American bays and harbors for 

 the purpose of shelter, repairing damages, and purchase of wood and 

 water, was intended to exclude them from going inshore to traffic, 

 transship, fish, purchase stores, mend nets, and hire seamen. 



Mr. BOURKE. The claim of the United States Government for dam- 

 ages alleged to have been done by Newfoundland fishermen in Fortune 

 Bay is still under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government. 

 No measures are being adopted for the purpose of abrogating or 

 amending clause 33 of the Treaty of Washington. The extent of the 

 fishing privileges accorded to the United States on the shores of Can- 

 ada and Newfoundland is laid down in the convention of 1818 and 

 in the Treaty of Washington of 1871. Her Majesty's Government 

 have not at present found it necessary to make any communication to 

 the United States Government with a view of defining more precisely 

 the exact interpretation of the language of those treaties. 



Mr. Gourley said that on an early day he would call attention to 

 the convention of 1818 between this country and the United States 

 relative to fisheries. 



