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Majesty's Dominions in America, it is agreed between the high con- 

 tracting parties that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall 

 have for ever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, 

 the liberty to take fish of every kind on that part of the southern coast 

 of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau 

 Islands on the western and northern coast of Newfoundland, from 

 the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Mag- 

 dalen Islands, and also on the coasts, bays, harbors and creeks, from 

 Mount Joly on the southern coasts of Labrador, to and through the 

 straits of Bellisle, and thence northwardly indefinitely along the 

 coast, without prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive rights of 

 the Hudson's Bay Company, and that the American Fishermen shall 

 also have liberty for ever to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled 

 bays, harbors and creeks of the southern part of the coasts of New- 

 foundland hereabove described, and of the coast of Labrador; but 

 so soon as the same or any portion thereof shall be settled, it shall 

 not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure fish on or within 

 at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such pur- 

 pose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground. 

 And the United States hereby renounce for ever any liberty hereto- 

 fore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or 

 cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, 

 creeks, or harbors of His Majesty's Dominions in America, not in- 

 cluded Avithin the above mentioned limits provided, however, that 

 the American Fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or har- 

 bors for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of 

 purchasing wood, and obtaining water, and for no other purpose 

 whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be neces- 

 sary to prevent their taking, drying, or curing Fish therein, or in 

 any other manner abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them." 

 An Act passed in the 59th year of the reign of His late Majesty 

 George 3, chap. 38, entitled, An Act to enable His Majesty to make 

 regulations with respect to the taking and curing Fish on certain 

 parts of the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, and His Majesty's 

 other possessions in North America, according to a Convention made 

 between His Majesty and the United States of America. And in 

 the year 1836, His late Majesty William the Fourth, in the 6th year of 

 His' Reign, by an order in Council, assented to, and made the clauses 

 of a certain Act of the Assembly of Nova Scotia, the Rules, Regula- 

 tions, and restrictions respecting the Fisheries, on the coasts, bays, 

 etc. of that Province, by the first section of which, it is enacted, that 

 any ship, vessel or boat, which shall be foreign, and not navigated 

 according to the laws of Great Britain and Ireland, which shall have 

 been found fishing, or preparing to fish, or to have been fishing, 

 within three marine miles of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of 

 this Province, such ship, vessel or boat, and their respective cargoes 

 shall be forfeited. Nova Scotia is indented with Bays, many of 

 which reach from 60 to 100 miles into the interior, such as the Bay 

 of Fundy, St. Mary's Bay, the Bras d'Or Lake, and Manchester Bay; 

 the land on the shores is entirely British territory, and Nova Scotia 

 proper is separated from the Island of Cape Breton by a narrow 

 strait called the Gut of Canso, in some parts not wider than three 

 quarters of a mile. In the Bay of Fundy, St. Mary's Bay, and the 



