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The fishing vessels of the one country shall not use the 

 harhours of the other country for the greater convenience 

 of their fishing operations. 



Herring fishermen shall comply with the laws and regu- 

 lations of the country where they fisli as to the observance 

 of the Sabbath-day. 



Signed at London, 24th May 1843. 



The harbour which was constructed at Wick orPulteney- 

 town, was in 1844 still found to be defective and insuffi- 

 cient, and the British Fishery Society applied for and 

 obtained, in 1844, an Act of Parliament authorising the 

 construction of a third harbour ; and the Act authorised 

 the appointment of commissioners, for the purpose of 

 managing the affairs of the port. It was found that the 

 proposed addition to the harbour would cost L.26,000, a 

 sum which the limited nature of the funds of the Society 

 scarcely justified in expending, particularly as the patriotic 

 and noble-spirited men who were the shareholders, had 

 only been paid eleven dividends of two per cent, in seventy- 

 six years. The Society, however, resolved to direct all its 

 efforts to procure the requisite sum, for the purpose of so 

 improving the harbour, as might render it more commo- 

 dious and safe for the vast numbers of fishermen who 

 resorted to the fishery ; and, to obtain additional funds, 

 the Society sold their properties at Lochbuy at a loss of 

 L.1241, at Ullapool at a loss of L.2870 ; but at Tobermory 

 at a profit of L.2300. 



One or two curers having been discovered in attempt- 

 ing to pass off their herrings as entitled to the Crown 

 brand, which herrings were either inferior in quality or not 

 assorted, or the casks not of full size, had their herrings 

 seized by the officers of the Fishery ; or, what was also 



