QUESTION SIX. 239 



1885: Arrangement, 14th November, between Great Britain and 

 France, 1885. 

 West Side Cote Quest (from Cape Eay to Cape Norman) : 



3. That portion of the coast situated between Cape Cormoran and 

 the west point of Pic Denis Harbour in the Bay of Port a Port on 

 the west. 



10. That portion of the coast folloAving the sinuosities of the fol- 

 lowing bays Fourche, Orange, Great and Little Calves. 



12. That portion of the coast situated on the east side of the Bay of 

 Pines and stretching from the 50th degree of latitude to the north 

 point of that part of the bay. 



14. That portion of the coast following the sinuosities of Paquet 

 Harbour." 



1886 : Report of the Canadian privy council, June 14, 1886 : 



1. In the first place the undersigned would ask it to be remembered 

 that the extent of the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada is 

 not limited (nor was that of the Provinces before the union) to the 

 sea -coast, but extends for three marine miles from the shore as to all 

 matters over which any legislative authority can in any country be 

 exercised within that space. The legislation which has been adopted 

 on this subject by the Parliament of Canada (and previously to con- 

 federation by the Provinces) does not reach beyond that limit. It 

 may be assumed that, in the absence of any treaty stipulation to the 

 contrary, this right is so well recognized and established by both 

 British and American law, that the grounds on which it is supported 

 need not be stated here at large. The undersigned will merely add, 

 therefore, to this statement of the position, that so far from the right 

 being limited by the convention of 1818 that convention expressly 

 recognizes it? 



1866: Canadian fishing regulations: 



By this you will observe, United States fishermen are secured the 

 liberty of taking fish on the southern coasts of Labrador, and around 

 the Magdalen Islands and of drying and curing fish along certain 

 of the southern shores of Labrador, where this coast is unsettled, or 

 if settled, after previous agreement with the settlers or owners of 

 the ground." 



1888: Unratified treaty between the United States and Great 

 Britain : 



Long Island and Bryer Island at St. Mary's Bay in Nova Scotia 

 shall for the purpose of delimitation be taken as the coasts of such 

 bay.* 



1892: The Newfoundland Consolidated Statutes, 1892; ch. 124, 



sec. 16: 



No person shall, upon the coasts of this colony or its dependencies, 

 use, for the purpose of taking codfish, any trap, the walls or sides 



U S Case, Appendix, 77-80. c U. S. Case, Appendix, 758. 



6 U. S. Case, Appendix, 812. * U. S. Case, 204 ; Appendix, 41. ^ 



