B. CANADA 

 1. FISHERIES 



a. Convention Respecting Fisheries, Boundary, and the 

 Restoration of Slaves, October 20, 1818* 



Concluded October 20, 1818; Ratification advised hy the Senate Janu- 

 ary 25, 1819; Ratified hy the President January 28, 1819; Ratifica- 

 tions exchanged January 30, 1819; Proclaimed January 30, 1819. 



Great Britain— 1818 

 [Pertaining to Canada] 



Articles 

 I. Fisheries. 

 II. Boundary from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains. 



III. Country west of the Stony Mountains. 



IV. Commercial convention extended. 

 V. Claims for restitution of slaves. 



VI. Ratification. 



The United States of America, and His Majesty the King of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, desirous to cement the 

 good understanding which happily subsists between them, have, for 

 that purpose, named their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : 



The President of the United States, on his part, has appointed, 

 Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary to the Court of France; and Richard Rush, their Envoy 

 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of His 

 Britannic Majesty : — and His Majesty has appointed the Right Hon- 

 orable Frederick John Robinson, Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, 

 and President of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and 

 Plantations; and Henry Goulburn Esq., one of His Majesty's Under 

 Secretarys of State : 



Who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, found 

 to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the fol- 

 lowing articles. 



Article I 



Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty claimed by 

 the United States for the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, and cure 

 fish on certain coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks of His Britannic 

 Majesty's dominions in America, it is agreed between the high con- 

 tracting parties, that the inhabitants of the said United States shall 

 have forever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, 

 the liberty to take fish of every kind on that part of the southern 

 coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau 

 Islands, on the western and northern coast of Newfoundland, from 



*Citation: 8 Stat. 248 ; TS 112 ; I Malloy 631. 



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