NOTE ON TRADE RELATIONS. 135 



"And vessels of the United States shall have liberty to import from 

 the said provinces to the said United States, slates, gypsum, and 

 grindstones, or any other article, being of the growth, produce, or 

 manufacture of any part of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, 'the 

 importation of which into the United States from any other place 

 shall not be entirely prohibited. 



"The vessels of either of the two parties employed in the trade 

 provided for by this article shall be admitted in the ports of the 

 other party, as above mentioned, without paying any other or higher 

 duties or charges than those payable in the same ports by the vessels 

 of such other party. The same duties shall also be paid, respectively, 

 in the dominions of both parties, on the importation and on the 

 exportation of the articles which may be imported or exported, by 

 virtue of this article; and the same bounties shall also be allowed 

 on the exportation thereof, whether such importation or exportation 

 shall be in vessels of the United States or in British vessels." 



At the sixth conference the United States commissioners (United 

 States Case, App., p. 314) 



" stated that they could not take into consideration the article respect- 

 ing the intercourse with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, uncon- 

 nected with the subject of the British West Indies." 



At the eighth conference a further proposal was made by the Brit- 

 ish commissioners with reference to the West Indies, but it was not 

 agreed to. And the only clause in the treaty relating to commercial 

 relations is as follow T s (British Case, App., p. 31) : 



"Art. 4. All the provisions of the convention ' to regulate the com- 

 merce between the territories of the United States and of His Britan- 

 nic Majesty,' concluded at London on the third day of July, 

 155 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fif- 

 teen, with the exception of the clause which limited its dura- 

 tion to four years, and excepting, also, so far as the same was affected 

 by the declaration of His Majesty respecting the Island of St. Helena, 

 are hereby extended and continued in force for the term of ten years 

 from the date of the signature of the present convention, in the 

 same manner as if all the provisions of the said convention were 

 herein specially recited." 



The projet submitted by the British commissioners at the fifth 

 conference deserves notice. Besides conceding liberties to fish and 

 to dry and cure fish, the draft contained the following (United States 

 Case, App., pp. 312, 313) : 



"And it is further agreed that nothing contained in this article 

 shall be construed to give to the inhabitants of the United States 

 any liberty to take fish within the rivers of His Britannic Majesty's 

 territories, as above described; and it is agreed, on the part of the 

 United States, that the fishermen of the United States resorting to 

 the mouths of such rivers shall not obstruct the navigation thereof, 

 nor wilfully injure nor destroy the fish within the same, either by 

 setting nets across the mouths of such rivers, or by any other means 

 whatever. 



