1110 MISCELLANEOUS. 



advancement of which they conduce support domestic trade and 

 foreign commerce of great extent and increasing value; they also 

 serve to make a necessary and healthful article of food plentiful 

 and cheap for the American nation. It is not merely the value of 

 "raw material" in fish taken out of British Canadian waters which 

 constitutes a fair basis of compensation; the right of this fishery 

 was an exclusive privilege, the sole use of which was highly prized, 

 and for the common enjoyment of which we demand equivalents 

 to be measured by our just estimation of its worth; we enhance 

 the main concession on this point by according kindred liberties 

 and indispensable facilities, all of which are direct advantages; 

 and, in order to illustrate the assessable value of the grant, we adduce 

 certain data relating to the number of United States fishing-vessels 

 more immediately interested, and the gross quantity and value of 

 their catch in British Canadian waters. 



In addition to the advantages above recited, the attention of the 

 Commissioners is respectfully drawn to the great importance attach- 

 ing to the beneficial consequences to the United States of honorably 

 acquiring for their fishermen full freedom to pursue their adventurous 

 calling without incurring constant risks, and exposing themselves 

 and their fellow-countrymen to the inevitable reproach of willfully 

 trespassing on the rightful domain of friendly neighbors. Paramount, 

 however, to this consideration is the avoidance of irritating disputes, 

 calculated to disquiet the public mind of a spirited and enterprising 

 people, and liable always to become a cause of mutual anxiety and 

 embarrassment. 



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PART II NEWFOUNDLAND. 

 CHAPTER I. Introduction and description of Newfoundland Fisheries. 



In addition to the privileges so enjoyed under the Convention 

 of 1818, Articles XVIII and XXI of the Treaty of Washington 

 granted to United States citizens: 



1. The liberty to take fish of every kind, except shell-fish, on the 

 remaining portion of the coast of Newfoundland, with liberty to 

 land on the said coast for the purpose of drying their nets and curing 

 their fish; provided that in so doing, they do not interfere with the 

 i ights of private property or with British fishermen in the peaceable 

 use of any part of the said coast in their occupancy for the said 

 purpose; the salmon and shad fisheries and all other fisheries in 

 rivers and mouths of rivers being reserved exclusively for British 

 fishermen. 



2. -The admission into Newfoundland of fish-oil and fish of all 

 kinds, except fish of the inland lakes and rivers falling into them, 

 and except fish preserved in oil, being the produce of fisheries of the 

 United States, free of duty. 



o Ib., pp. 96-97. 



