878 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



and to say that I shall at an early day submit to your lordship some 

 considerations in reply. 



Meanwhile, I have the honor to transmit, in pursuance of the desire 

 expressed by your lordship in conversation on November 30, a copy 

 of an outline for a proposed ad interim arrangement between the two 

 governments on this subject which has been proposed by the Secre- 

 tary of State of the United States. 



And I likewise transmit, in connection with it, a copy of the in- 

 struction from the Secretary of State which accompanied it, and 

 which I am authorized to submit to your lordship. 

 I have, etc., 



E. J. PHELPS. 



Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. . 



BRITISH LEGATION, 

 Washington, December 6, 1886. 

 (Received December 7.) 



SIR : With reference to your note of the 27th of October last, I have 

 the honor to inclose herewith a certified copy of a report of a com- 

 mittee of the privy council of Canada, together with copy of the cus- 

 toms laws, which documents contain the information required re- 

 specting the sale and exportation of fresh herring from Grand Manan 

 Island. 



I have, &c., 



L. S. SACKVTLLE WEST. 



[Enclosure.] 



Certified copy of a report of a committee of the honorable the privy 

 council of Canada, approved by his excellency the governor-gen- 

 eral^ in council, on the 24th day of November, 1886. 



The committee of the privy council having had their attention 

 called bv a telegram, dated 18th November instant, from Her Maj- 

 esty's minister at Washington, to his former dispatch of the 28th 

 October ultimo, inclosing a copy of a note from the honorable Mr. 

 Bayard, and the inclosures, asking for authentic information respect- 

 ing the Canadian laws regulating the sale and exportation of fresh 

 herring from the Grand Manan Island. 



The minister of marine and fisheries, to whom said dispatch was 

 referred for early report, states that any foreign vessel " not manned 

 nor equipped, nor in any way prepared for taking fish," has full 

 liberty of commercial intercourse in Canadian ports upon the same 

 conditions as are applicable to regularly registered foreign merchant 

 vessels; nor is any restriction imposed upon any foreign vessel deal- 

 ing in fish of any kind different from those imposed upon foreign 

 merchant vessels dealing in other commercial commodities. 



(1) 47 Viet, cap. 29, "An act to amend the customs act, 1883." (Assented 

 to April 19, 1884.) (2) 46 Viet, cap. 12, "An act to amend and consolidate the 

 acts respecting the customs." (Assented to May 25, 1883.) 



