240 THE ARGUMENT OP THE UNITED STATES. 



of which consisted at its original construction of meshes less than 

 four inches, and no netting for alterations or repairs of cod-traps 

 shall be less than four inches. 



1907 : Letter of Lord Elgin to Governor McGregor, September 11 : 



With regard to the taking, drying and curing of fish by the inhab- 

 itants of the United States of America in common with British sub- 

 jects on the coasts of Newfoundland. 6 



1908 : Newfoundland fishing regulations : section 82 : 



The governor in council may grant to any person a license to erect 

 houses on any part of the coast of this colony for the cold storage of 

 bait fishes, and no person shall erect houses for the cold storage of 

 bait fishes on any part of the coast of the colony without having first 

 obtained a license. 



It is unmistakable that the word " coast " was commonly and con- 

 stantly used to describe the edge or shore of the sea, whether the line 

 was straight, as it rarely is, or curved and indented by bays and inlets. 

 It is used of the places where fish may be dried and cured (that 

 is of shores of bays and harbors) ; of stretches of shore which are 

 elsewhere detailed as " coasts, bays, harbours and creeks;" as meaning 

 the strand, low water mark, the sinuosities of bays, the shore, the 

 shore line of a bay, etc. 



U. S. Case, Appendix, 177. C TJ. S. Case, Appendix, 210. 



*U. S. Case, Appendix, 1019. 



NOTE. See use of the word " coast " by Earl of Kimberley, 1870 (U. S. Case 

 Appendix, 629) ; French treaties (U. S. Case App., 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 69, 70, 

 71, 72, 73, 76, 82, 83, 85) ; Newfoundland Statutes (ibid., 177, 188, 193, 196) ; New- 

 foundland Fishery Regulations (ibid., 209, 210, 211) ; Negotiations of Treaty of 

 1783 (ibid., 219) ; Negotiations of Treaty of Ghent (ibid., 251, 254) ; Earl of 

 Derby, 1884 (U. S. Counter Case Appendix, 306-309) ; " The Western Star," 

 Newfoundland (ibid., 386) ; speech of Mr. Morine, Newfoundland Assembly, 1905 

 (ibid., 452) ; Monroe to Adams, 1816 (U. S. Case Appendix, 289) ; protocol of 

 1888 (ibid., 44) ; Nova Scotia Revised Statutes, 1851, chapter 94, page 320 (ibid., 

 125). 



Sir Anthony Perrier memorandum to the Earl of Malmesbury concerning the 

 negotiations with the French in 1852. (U. S. Counter Case Appendix, 228.) 

 Newfoundland Act of March 27, 1862, section 1. (U. S. Case Appendix, 161.) 

 Newfoundland Cons. Stats. (1872), sections 2, 3. (Ibid., 163.) 

 Newfoundland Act of March 19, 1879, section 1. (Ibid., 166.) 

 Newfoundland Cons. Stats. 1879, sections 1, 2, 3. (Ibid., 168.) 

 Newfoundland Cons. Stats. 1892, section 1. (Ibid., 175.) 



