866 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



lines to be regularly numbered, duly described, and also clearly 

 marked on charts prepared in duplicate for the purpose. 



(2) To agree upon and establish such regulations as may be neces- 

 sary and proper to secure to the fishermen of the United States the 

 privilege of entering bays and harbors for the purpose of shelter 

 and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of ob- 

 taining water, and to agree upon and establish such restrictions as 

 may be necessary to prevent the abuse of the privilege reserved by 

 said convention to the fishermen of the United States. 



(3) To agree upon and recommend the penalties to be adjudged, 

 and such proceedings and jurisdiction as may be necessary to secure 

 a speedy trial and judgment with as little expense as possible, for the 

 violators of rights and the transgressors of the limits and restrictions 

 which may be hereby adopted : 



Provided, however, that the limits, restrictions, and regulations 

 which may be agreed upon by the said commission shall not be final, 

 nor have any effect until so jointly confirmed and declared by the 

 United States and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, either by 

 treaty or by laws mutually acknowledged. 



ARTICLE II. 



Pending a definite arrangement on the subject, Her Britannic 

 Majesty's Government agree to instruct the proper colonial and other 

 British officers to abstain from seizing or molesting fishing vessels of 

 the United States unless they are found within three marine miles ol 

 any of the coasts, bays, creeks, and harbors of Her Britannic Majes- 

 ty's dominions in America, there fishing, or to have been fishing, or 

 preparing to fish within those limits, not included within the limits 

 within which, under the treaty of 1818, the fishermen of the United 

 States continue to retain a common right of fishery with Her Britan- 

 nic Majesty's subjects. 



AKTICLE III. 



For the purpose of executing Article I of the convention of 1818, 

 the Government of the United States and the Government of Her 

 Britannic Majesty hereby agree to send each to the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence a national vessel, and also one each to cruise during the fishing 

 season on the southern coasts of Nova Scotia. Whenever a fishing 

 vessel of the United States shall be seized for violating the provisions 

 of the aforesaid convention by fishing or preparing to fish within 

 three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, and harbors of 

 Her Britannic Majesty's dominions included within the limits within 

 which fishing is by the terms of the said convention renounced, such 

 vessel shall forthwith be reported to the officer in command of one of 

 the said national vessels, who, in conjunction with the officer in com- 

 mand of another of said vessels of the different nationality, shall hear 

 and examine into the facts of the case. Should the said commanding 

 officers be of opinion that the charge is not sustained, the vessel shall 

 be released. But if they should be of opinion that the vessel should 

 be subjected to a judicial examination, she shall forthwith be sent 

 for trial before the vice-admiralty court at Halifax. If, however, the 

 said commanding officers should differ in opinion, they shall name 



