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steps which have been taken in the matter in consequence of the 

 protest of the United States Government. 



On the arrival of your note in London, Her Majesty's secretary of 

 state for the colonies telegraphed to the officers administering the 

 Governments of Canada and Newfoundland calling attention to the 

 cases, and explaining that under the treaty of 1818 United States 

 fishermen have the right to fish off the coasts of the Magdalen Islands 

 and off certain coasts of Newfoundland, and stating that it was pre- 

 sumed that the customs officials in those places had not been 

 instructed in the same way as on other parts of the coast. 



On the 25th ultimo the Governments of Canada and Newfound- 

 land were further instructed by dispatches from the colonial office 

 to make full reports on the subject of the complaints in question, and 

 it was recommended that special instructions should be issued to the 

 authorities at those places where the inshore fishery has been granted 

 by the convention of 1818 to the United States fishermen, calling 

 their attention to the provisions of that convention, and warning 

 them that no action contrary thereto may be taken in regard to 

 United States fishing vessels. 



I may add that information has been received that the warning 

 notices referred to by you were discontinued in the beginning of 

 August. 



I have, &c., L. S. SACKVTT.T.F. WEST. 



Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, September 18, 1886. 



(Keceived September 20.) 



SIR: I have the honor to inform you that I am requested by the 

 Earl of Iddesleigh to state to you that immediate inquiry will be 

 made regarding the action of the officer of the Canadian schooner 

 E. F. Conrad, in the case of the United States schooner Golden Hind, 

 which formed the subject of your note of the 17th ultimo. 

 I have, &c., 



L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



Nr. Bayard to Sir L. West. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 

 Washington, September 23, 1886. 



SIR : I have the honor to bring to your attention an instance which 

 has been brought to my knowledge of an alleged denial of one of the 

 rights guaranteed by the convention of 1818, in the case of an Ameri- 

 can vessel. 



Capt. Joseph E. Graham, of the fishing schooner A. R. Crittenden, 

 of Gloucester, Mass., states under oath that on or about the 21st of 

 July last, on a return trip from the open-sea fishing grounds to his 

 home port, and while passing through the Strait of Canso, he stopped 

 at Steep Creek for water. The customs officer at that place told him 

 that if he took in water his vessel would be seized; whereupon he 

 sailed without obtaining the needed supply, and was obliged to put 

 his men on short allowance of water during the passage homeward. 



