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Such warnings are, as you must be well aware, wholly unwarranted 

 pretensions of extra-territorial authority and usurpation of juris- 

 diction by the provincial officers. 



It becomes my duty in bringing this information to your notice, to 

 request that if any such orders for interference with the unquestionable 

 rights of the American fishermen to pursue their business without 

 molestation, at any point not within three marine miles of the shores, 

 and within the defined limits as to which renunciation of the liberty 

 to fish was expressed in the Treaty of 1818, may have been issued, the 

 same may at once be revoked as violation of the rights of citizens of 

 the United States under Convention with Great Britain. 



I will ask you to bring this subject to the immediate attention of 

 Her Britannic Majesty's Government, to the end that proper remedial 

 orders may be forthwith issued. 



It seems most unfortunate and regrettable that questions which 

 have been long since settled between the United States and Great 

 Britain should now be sought to be revived. 

 I have, &c., 



(Sd.) T. F. BAYARD. 



The Honourable 



Sir LIONEL S. SACKVELLE WEST, K.C.M.G. 



Mr. Bayard to Mr. P helps. 



[Telegram.] 



WASHINGTON, July 15, 1886. 

 PHELPS, Minister, London. 



You will state to Lord Rosebery that realizing fully any embar- 

 rassment or delays, attendant upon pending changes of British ad- 

 ministration, it is our duty to call upon the Imperial Government 

 to put a stop to the unjust arbitrary and vexatious action of Canadian 

 authorities towards our citizens engaged in open sea fishing and trad- 

 ing but not violating or contemplating violation of any law or treaty. 

 Our readiness, long since expressed, to endeavor to come to a just and 

 fair joint interpretation of treaty-rights and commercial privileges 

 is illy met by persistent and unfriendly action of Canadian authori- 

 ties which is rapidly producing a most injurious and exasperating 

 effect. 



I am without reply from the British Minister who is now absent. 



BAYARD. 



Mr. Bayard to Mr. Ear ding e. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington, July 16, 1886. 



SIR: I have just received through the honorable C. A. Boutelle, 

 M. C., the affidavit of Stephen R. Balkam, alleging his expulsion from 

 the harbor of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, by Captain Kent, of the 

 Dominion cruiser Middlcton, and the refusal to permit him to pur- 



