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denounced on the 17th of March, 1865, and expired 
on the 17th of March, 1866. 
In truth, the United States had purchased the fish- 
ery provisions of this treaty by other provisions to 
the effect that certain enumerated articles of the’ 
growth and produce of the British Colonies of Cana- 
da, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward’s 
Island, and Newfoundland, or of the United States, 
should be “admitted into each country respectively 
free of duty.” 
But the reciprocity here was nearly nominal, the 
great benefits of the provision inuring to the British 
Colonies. The fisheries had come to be the incident 
of a larger question, namely, that of the terms of com- 
mercial intercourse between the United States and 
the British Colonies in North America. 
Dissatisfaction in the United States with this state 
of things led to the denouncement of the treaty, and 
to the revival of a controversy between the two Gov- 
ernments regarding the fisheries: which controversy 
was terminated by the Treaty of Washington. 
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PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
By Articles XVIIL, XIX., and XX., the fishery 
stipulations of the Treaty of September 9, 1854, are 
in substance revived, with further provision for the 
appointment of a Commission to settle any outstand- 
ing question as to the “ places ” of fishery reserved by 
either Government. 
It is further agreed that fish-oil and fish of all 
kinds, except fish of the inland lakes and of the riv- 
