QUESTION SIX. 237 



the provisions of the first and second articles of this treaty, and shall 

 designate the places reserved by the said articles from the common 

 right of fishing therein.* 



The places reserved were " rivers and the mouths of rivers." 6 It 

 is a matter of common knowledge that most rivers empty into bays 

 rather than directly into the ocean ; an examination of the maps sub- 

 mitted will disclose that fact It follows that here too the word 

 coast must include bays. 



Very nearly the same language is employed in the fishery articles 

 of the treaty of 1871 as in that of 1854, and the above discussion has 

 equal application to it. It should also be noted that in this treaty 

 the word " coast " was used repeatedly as meaning the shore. 



USE OF "COAST" IN OTHER TREATIES, ACTS, MEMORIALS, 

 ADDRESSES, HISTORIES, ORDERS, AND REGULATIONS. 



It is instructive to note the use of the word "coast" in other 

 treaties and formal documents, in addition to those referred to in the 

 British Case. Its use in some of the French treaties has already ap- 

 peared. 



1809 : Act of March 30 (49 George III, Cap. 27) : 



An act for establishing courts of judicature in the island of New- 

 foundland and the islands adjacent and for re-annexing part of the 

 coast of Labrador and the islands lying on the said coast to the gov- 

 ernment of Newfoundland. 



XIV. And whereas His Majesty by his proclamation of the 7th 

 day of October 1763 was pleased to declare that he had put the coast 

 of Labrador from the River St. John, etc. under the care and inspec- 

 tion of the governor of Newfoundland. * 



And whereas * * * the Province of Quebec was divided into 

 two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada the latter including the 

 parts of the coast of Labrador and the said islands so formerly 

 annexed * * *. 



And whereas it is expedient that the said coast of Labrador * * * 

 should be re-annexed, etc. 



Be it therefore enacted that such parts of the coast of Labrador 

 from the River St. John to Hudson's Strait * * * be again re- 

 annexed to the government of Newfoundland.* 



U. S. Case, Appendix, 27. C U. S. Case, Appendix, 29-30. 



* U. S. Case, Appendix, 26. * U. S. Counter Case, Appendix, 67. 



