238 THE ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 



1814: Treaty of May 30, 1814, between Great Britain and France: 



XIII. The French right of fishery upon the Great Bank of New- 

 foundland, upon the coasts of the island of that name and of the 

 adjacent islands, etc. 



1825: Act of June 22, 1825 (6 George IV. Cap. 59), re-annexing 

 to lower Canada a part of Labrador, viz : 



so much of the said coast as lies westward of a line to be drawn due 

 north and south from the Bay or Harbour of Ance Sablon. 6 



1832: British North America, M'Gregor: 



Cabot, by the most undoubted authority, discovered and landed 

 on the coast several years before and took possession of this island, 

 which he named Baccalaos. * * * 



The coast of Labrador was in 1763 separated from Canada and 

 annexed to the government of Newfoundland. 



1857: Treaty of January 14, 1857, between Great Britain and 

 France : 



Relative to the fisheries on the coast of the island of Newfound- 

 land and the neighboring coasts by regulating with exactness. 



ART. I. French subjects shall have the exclusive right to fish and 

 10 use the strand for fishery purposes * * * on the east coast 

 of Newfoundland * * * on the north coast of Newfoundland 



* * * and on the west coast in and upon the five fishing harbors of 



* * * 



ART. III. French subjects shall have the right concurrently with 

 British subjects to fish on the coasts of Lbrador. d 



1867: Treaty of November 11, 1867, between Great Britain and 

 France : 



British fishermen shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishing within 

 the distance of three miles of low-water mark along the whole extent 

 of the coasts of the British Islands. 8 



1870 : The British foreign office memorandum of 1870 referring to 

 the treaty of 1818: 



When such a bay, etc., is not a bay of Her Majesty's dominion the 

 American fishermen will be entitled to fish in it, except within three 

 miles of the coast J 



1877 : British case before Halifax Commission : 



American fishermen pursue their calling around the islands and in 

 the harbours of the Bay of Fundy and along parts of the coasts of 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick bordering the said bay." 



a U. S. Case, Appendix, 57. e British Case, Appendix, 38. 



6 U. S. Counter Case, Appendix, 71. f U. S. Case, Appendix, 629. 



U. S. Counter Case, Appendix, 566. ' U. S. Counter Case, Appendix, 534. 



* U. S. Case, Appendix, 5&-60. 



