PERIOD FROM 1871 TO 1905. 



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cised subject to the same rules and 

 regulations and payment of the 

 same port charges as are pre- 

 scribed for other vessels of the 

 United States. 



ARTICLE V. 



The Government of Her Bri- 

 tannic Majesty agree to release all 

 United States fishing vessels now 

 under seizure for failing to re- 

 port at custom-houses when seek- 

 ing shelter, repairs, or supplies, 

 and to refund all fines exacted for 

 such failure to report. And the 

 high contracting parties agree to 

 appoint a joint commission to as- 

 certain the amount of damage 

 caused to American fishermen 

 during the year 1886 by seizure 

 and detention in violation of the 

 treaty of 1818, said commission 

 to make awards therefor to the 

 parties injured. 



ARTICLE VI. 



The Government of the United 

 States and the Government of 

 Her Britannic Majesty agree to 

 give concurrent notification and 

 warning of Canadian customs reg- 

 ulations, and the United States 

 agree to admonish its fishermen 

 to comply with them and co-oper- 

 ate in securing their enforcement. 



vessels, which were thereafter to 

 be denied the right of access to 

 Canadian waters for any purpose 

 whatever, except those of shelter, 

 repairs, and the purchase of wood 

 and water. It has frequently 

 been pointed out that an attempt 

 was made, during the negotia- 

 tions which preceded the conven- 

 tion of 1818, to obtain for the 

 fishermen of the United States 

 the right of obtaining bait in 

 Canadian waters, and that this 

 attempt was successfully resisted. 

 In spite of this fact, it is pro- 

 posed, under this article, to de- 

 clare that the convention of 1818 

 gave that privilege, as well as the 

 privilege of purchasing other sup- 

 plies in the harbors of the Do- 

 minion. 



By this article it is proposed 

 to give retrospective effect to the 

 unjustified interpretation sought 

 to be placed on the convention by 

 the last preceding article. 



It is assumed, without discus- 

 sion, that all United States fish- 

 ing vessels which have been 

 seized since the expiration of the 

 treaty of W as lri n gt;on have been 

 illegally seized leaving as the 

 only question still open for con- 

 sideration the amount of the dam- 

 ages for which the Canadian au- 

 thorities are liable. 



Such a proposal appears to Her 

 Majesty's Government quite in- 

 admissible. 



This article calls for no remark. 



